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1  STATE  OF  WYOMING  I 


IN  FORCE  MARCH  31, 1895 


PUBLISHED     BY    AUTHORITY. 


COMPILED   BY  ESTELLE   REEL, 

STATE    SUPERINTENDENT    OF    PUBLIC    INSTRUCTION, 
CHEYENNE,  WYOMING. 


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SCHOOL    LAWS 


OF    THE 


STATE  OF  WYOMING 


IN  FORCE  MARCH  31, 1895. 


COMPILED   BY  ESTELLE   REEL, 

STATE    SUPERINTENDENT    OF    PUBLIC    INSTRUCTION, 
CHEYENNE,  WYOMING. 


CHEYENNE,  WYO., 

SUN-LEADER  BOOK  PUBLISHING  HOUSE, 
1895. 


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SCHOOL     LAWS 


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STATE    OF    WYOniNG. 


(From  the  Act  of    Admission  of    the  State  of    Wyoming,  ap 
proved  July  10,  181)0) 


(EXTRACT.) 


GRANT  OF  SCHOOL  LANDS. 

Sec.  4.  That  sections  numbered  1G  and  30  in  every  town- 
ship of  said  proposed  State,  and,  where  such  sections,  or  any 
parts  thereof,  have  been  sold  or  otherwise  disposed  of  by  or 
under  the  authority  of  any  act  of  Congress,  other  lands  equiva- 
lent thereto,  in  legal  sub-divisions  of  not  less  than  one  quarter 
section,  and  as  contiguous  as  may  be  to  the  section  in  lieu  of 
which  the  same  is  taken,  are  hereby  granted  to  said  State  for 
the  support  of  common  schools,  such  indemnity  lands  to  be 
selected  within  said  State  in  such  manner  as  the  Legislature 
may  provide,  with  the  approval  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior; 
Trovided,  That  Section  (>  of  the  act  of  Congress  of  August  9, 
1888,  entitled,  "An  act  to  authorize  the  leasing  of  the  school 
and  university  lands  in  the  Territory  of  Wyoming,  and  for 
other  pur-poses,"  shall  apply  to  the  school  and  university  in- 
demnity lands  of  the  said  State  of  Wyoming,  so  far  as  applica- 
ble 

DISPOSAL     OF     GRANTED     LANDS. 

Sec.  5.  That  all  lauds  herein  granted  for  educational  pur- 
poses shall  be  disposed  of  only  at  public  sale,  the  proceeds  to 
const  it  iite  a  permanent  school  fund,  the  interest  of  which  only 
shall  be  expended  in  the  support  of  said  schools.  But  said  lands 
may,  under  such  regulations  as  the  Legislature  shall  prescribe, 
be  leased  for  periods  of  not  more  than  five  years,  in  quantities 

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4  ACT    OF    ADMISSION. 

not  exceeding  one  section  to  any  one  person  or  company;  and 
such  laijd  shall  not  be  subject  to  pre-emption,  homestead  entry, 
or  any  other  entry  under  the  land  laws  of  the  United  States, 
whether  surveyed  or  unsurveyed,  but  shall  be  reserved  for 
school  purposes  only. 


PROCEEDS  OF   U.   S.   LAND   SALE,    PERCENTAGE   TO   STATE. 

Sec.  7.  That  5  per  cent,  of  the  proceeds  of  the  sales  of 
public  lands  lying  within  said  State  which  shall  tie  sold  by  the 
United  States  subsequent  to  the  admission  of  said  State  into  the 
Union,  after  deducting  all  expenses  incident  to  the  same,  shall 
be  paid  to  the  said  State,  to  be  used  as  a  permanent  fund,  the 
interest  of  which  only  shall  be  expended  for  the  support  of  the 
common  schools  within  said  State. 

LANDS    GRANTED   FOR   SCHOOL   PURPOSES. 

Sec.  S.  That  the  lands  granted  to  the  Territory  of  Wyo- 
ming by  the  act  of  February  18,  1881,  entitled,  "An  act  to 
grant  lands  to  Dakota,  Montana,  Arizona,  Idaho  and  Wyo- 
ming, for  university  purjK>ses,'?  are  hereby  vested  in  the  State 
of  AVyoming,  to  the  extent  of  th?  full  quantity  of  seventy-two 
sections  to  said  State,  and  any  portion  of  said  lands  that  may 
not  have  been  selected  by  said  Territory  of  Wyoming  may  be 
selected  by  the  said  State;  but  said  act  of  February  18,  1881, 
should  be  so  amended  as  to  provide  that  none  of  said  lands  shall 
be  sold  for  less  than  f  10  per  acre,  and  the  proceeds  shall  con- 
stitute a  permanent  fund  to  be  safely  invested  and  held  by  said 
State,  and  the  income  thereof  be  used  exclusively  for  university 
purposes.  The  schools,  colleges  and  universities  provided  for 
in  this  act  shall  forever  remain  under  the  exclusive  control 
of  the  said  State,  and  no  part  of  the  proceeds  arising  from  the 
sale  or  disposal  of  any  lands  herein  granted  for  educational 
purposes  shall  be  used  for  the  support  of  any  sectarian  or  de- 
nominational school,  college  or  university. 


AGRICULTURAL  LANDS. 

Sev.  10.  That  90,000  acres  of  land,  to  be  selected  and 
located  as  provided  in  Section  4  of  this  act,  are  hereby  granted 
to  said  State  for  the  use  and  support  of  an  Agricultural  College 
in  said  State,  as  provided  in  the  acts  of  Congress  making  dona- 
tions of  lands  for  such  purposes. 


CONSTITUTION.  5 

MINERAL  LANDS   EXCEPTED  FROM   GRANTS. 

Sec.  13.  That  all  mineral  lands  shall  be  exempted  from 
the  grants  made  by  this  act.  But  if  Sections  1(5  and  86,  or  any 
sub-division  or  portion  of  any  smallest  sub  division  thereof  in 
any  township,  shall  be  found  by  the  Department  of  the  Interior 
to  be  mineral  lands,  said  State  is  hereby  authorized  and  empow- 
ered to  select,  in  legal  sub-divisions,  an  equal  quantity  of  other 
unappropriated  lands  in  said  St;'.te  in  lieu  thereof,  for  the  use 
and  the  benefit  of  the  common  schools  of  said  State. 

SELECTION  OF  LANDS. 

Sec.  14.  That  all  lands  granted  in  quantity  or  as  indem- 
nity by  this  act,  shall  be  selected,  under  the  direction  of  the 
Secretary  of  the  Interior,  from  the  sun-eyed,  unsurveyed  and 
unappropriated  public  lands  of  the  United  States  within  the 
limits  of  the  State  entitled  thereto.  And  there  shall  be  de- 
ducted from  the  number  of  acres  of  land  donated  by  this  act 
for  specific  objects  to  said  State,  the  number  of  acres  hereto- 
fore donated  by  Congress  to  said  Territory  for  similar  objects. 


CONSTITUTION. 


ARTICLE     IV. 

EXECUTIVE     DEPARTMENT. 
(EXTRACT.) 


PROVIDING   FOR   ELECTION    OF   STATE    OFFICERS,    INCLUDING 
A    SUPERINTENDENT    OF   PUBLIC   INSTRUCTION. 

Sec.  11.  There  shall  be  chosen  by  the  qualified  electors 
of  the  State  at  the  times  and  places  of  choosing  members  of  the 
Legislature,  a  Secretary  of  State,  Auditor,  Treasurer,  and  Sir 
porintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  who  shall  have  attained  the 
age  of  twenty-five  years  respectively,  shall  be  citizens  of  the 
United  States,  and  shall  have  the  qualification  of  State  electors. 
They  shall  severally  hold  their  officevS  at  the  seat  of  government 
for  the  term  of  four  (4)  years  and  until  their  successors  are 


CONSTITUTION. 


elected  and  duly  qualified,  but  no  person  shall  be  eligible  for  the 
office  of  Treasurer  for  four  (4)  years  after  the  expiration  of  the 
term  for  which  he  was  elected.  The  Legislature  may  provide 
for  such  other  State  officers  as  are  deemed  necessary. 


ARTICLE     VII. 

EDUCATION. 
PUBLIC   INSTRUCTION. 

Sec.  1.  The  Legislature  shall  provide  for  the  establish- 
ment and  maintenance  of  a  complete  and  uniform  system  of 
public  instruction,  embracing-  free  elementary  schools  of  every 
needed  kind  and  grade,  a  university  with  such  technical  and 
professional  departments  as  the  public  good  may  require  and 
the  means  of  the  State  allow,  and  such  other  institutions  as  may 
be  necessary. 

PERPETUAL,   FUNDS  FOR   SCHOOLS  DESIGNATED. 

Sec.  2.  The  following-  are  declared  to  be  perpetual  funds 
for  school  purposes,  of  which  the  annual  income  only  can  be 
appropriated,  to  wit :  Such  percentum  as  has  been  or  may  here- 
after be  granted  by  Congress  on  the  sale  of  lands  in  this  State; 
all  moneys  arising  from  the  sale  or  lease  of  Sections  No.  1C  and 
36  in  each  township  in  the  State,  and  the  lands  selected  or  that 
may  be  selected  in  lieu  thereof;  the  proceeds  of  all  lands  that 
have  been  or  may  hereafter  be  granted  to  this  State,  where,  by 
the-  terms  and  conditions  of  the  grant,  the  same  are  not  to  be 
other  wise  appropriated;  the  net  proceeds  of  lands  and  other 
property  and  effects  that  may  come  to  the  State  by  escheat  or 
forfeiture,  or  from  unclaimed  dividends  or  distributive  shares 
of  the  estates  of  deceased  persons;  all  moneys,  stocks,  bonds, 
lands  and  other  property  now  belonging  to  the  common  school 
fund. 

OTHER  REVENUE. 

Sec.  3.  To  the  sources  of  revenue  above  mentioned  shall 
be  added  all  other  grants,  gifts  and  devises  that  have  been  or 
may  hereafter  be  made  to  this  State  and  not  otherwise  appro- 
priated by  the  terms  of  the  grant,  gift  or  devise. 

SCHOOL  MONEY,  RESTRICTION  ON  USE. 

Sec.  4.  All  moneys,  stocks,  bonds,  lands  and  other  prop- 
erty belonging  to  a  county  school  fund,  except  such  moneys  and 


CONSTITUTION.  7 

property  as  may  be  provided  by  law  for  current  use  in  aid  of 
public  schools,  shall  belong  to  and  be  securely  invested  and 
sacredly  preserved  in  the  several  counties  as  a  county  public 
school  fund,  the  income  of  which  shall  be  appropriated  exclu- 
sively to  the  use  and  support  of  free  public  schools  in  the  several 
counties  of  the  State. 

FINES  GO  TO  SCHOOL  FUND. 

Sec.  5.  All  fines  and  penalties  under  general  laws  of  the 
JState  shall  belong  to  the  public  school  fund  of  the  respective 
counties  aisd  be  paid  over  to  the  custodians  of  such  funds  for 
the  current  support  of  the  public  schools  therein. 

SCHOOL    FUNDS,    RESTRICTION    ON    INVESTMENT. 

Sec.  0.  All  funds  belonging  to  the  State  for  public  school 
purposes,  the  interest  and  income  of  which  only  are  to  be  used, 
shall  bo  deemed  trust  funds  in  the  care  of  the  State,  which 
shall  ke«-p  them  for  the  exclusive  benefit  of  the  public  schools, 
and  shall  make  good  any  losses  that  may  in  any  manner  occur, 
so  that  the  same  shall  remain  forever  inviolate  and  undimin- 
ished.  Xone  of  such  funds  shall  ever  be  invested  or  loaned  ex- 
cept on  the  bonds  issued  by  school  districts,  or  registered  county 
bonds  of  the  State,  or  State  securities  of  this  State,  or  of  the 
United  States. 

APPLICATION  OF  INCOME. 

See.  7.  The  income  arising  from  the  funds  mentioned  in 
the  preceding  section,  together  with  all  the  rents  of  the  unsold 
school  lands  and  such  other  means  as  the  Legislature  may  pro- 
vide, shall  be  exclusively  applied  to  the  support  of  free  schools 
in  every  county  in  the  State. 

'DISTRIBUTION   OF  INCOME. 

Sec.  8.  Provision  shall  be  made  by  general  law  for  the 
equitable  distribution  of  such  income  among  the  several  coun- 
ties according  to  the  number  of  children  of  school  age  in  each; 
which  several  counties  shall  in  like  manner  distribute  the  pro- 
portion of  said  fund  by  them  received  respectively  to  the  several 
school  districts  embraced  therein.  But  no  appropriation  shall 
be  made  from  said  fund  to  any  district  for  the  year  in  which  a. 
school  has  not  been  maintained  for  at  least  three  months;  nor 
shall  any  portion  of  any  public  school  fund  ever  be  used  to  sup- 
port or  assist  any  private  school,  or  any  school,  academy,  semi- 
nary, college  or  other  institution  of  learning  controlled  by  any 


CONSTITUTION. 

church   or  sectarian  organization    or   religious   denomination 
whatsoever. 

TAXATION  FOR  SCHOOLS. 

Sec.  9.  The  Legislature  shall  make  such  further  provision 
by  taxation  or  otherwise,  as  with  the  income  arising  from  the 
general  school  fund  will  create  and  maintain  a  thorough  and 
efficient  system  of  public  schools,  adequate  to  the  proper  in- 
struction of  all  the  youth  of  the  State,  between  the  ages  of  six: 
and  twenly  one  years,  free  of  charge;  and  in  view  of  such  pro- 
vision so  made,  the  Legislature  shall  require  that  every  child 
of  sufficient  physical  and  mental  ability  shall  attend  a  public 
school  during  the  period  between  six  and  eighteen  years  for  a 
time  equivalent  to  thive  \vars,  unless  educated  by  other 
means. 

NO  DISCRIMINATION  AS   TO  PUPILS. 

See.  10.  In  none  of  the  public  schools  so  established  and 
maintained  shall  distinction  or  discrimination  be  made  on  ac- 
count of  sex,  race  or  color. 

TEXT  BOOKS. 

Sec.  11.  Neither  tlu*  Legislature  nor  the  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction  shall  have  power  to  prescribe  text  books 
to  be  used  in  the  public  school*. 

SECTARIAN   INSTRUCTION   PROHIBITED. 

Sec.  12.  Xo  sectarian  instruction,  qualifications  or  tests 
shall  be  imparted,  exacted,  applied  or  in  any  manner  tolerated 
in  schools  of  any  grade  or  character  controlled  by  the  State, 
nor  shall  attendance  be  required  at  any  religious  service  there- 
in, nor  shall  any  sectarian  tenets  or  doctrines  be  taught  or 
favored  in  any  public  school  or  institution  that  may  be  estab- 
lished under  the  constitution. 

BOARD    OF   LAND   COMMISSIONERS.      (See   note   following1   this   sec- 
tion.) 

Sec.  1.3.  The  Governor,  Secretary  of  State,  State  Treas- 
urer and  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall  constitute 
the  Board  of  Li-.nd  Commissioners,  which,  under  direction  of 
the  Legislature,  as  limited  by  this  Constitution,  shall  have  di- 
rection, control,  leasing  and  disposal  of  the  lands  of  the  State 
granted,  or  which  may  be  hereafter  granted  for  the  support 
and  benefit  of  public  schools,  subject  to  the  further  limitations 


CONSTITUTION.  9- 

that  the  sale  of  all  lands  shall  be  at;  public  auction,  after  suck 
delay  (not  less  than  the  time  fixed  by  Congress)  in  portions  at 
proper  intervals  of  time,  and  at  such  minimum  prices  (not  less 
than  the  minimum  fixed  by  Congress;  as  to  realize  the  largest 
possible  proceeds. 

THE   BOARD  OF   LAND   COMMISSIONERS. 

(Noto  —  Relative  to  Board  of  Land  Commissioners  designated  by  the 
Legislature  under  the  foregoing  Constitutional  provision — The  following 
extract  is  made  from  laws  of  1800-91,  ch,  79,  page  332,  viz:  "Section  1. 
The  Governor,  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  and  Secretary  of 
State  being  constituted  a  State  Board  of  Land  Commissioners  by  the 
Constitution  of  this  State,  shall,  as  such  Board,  have  the  direction, 
management  and  control  of  all  lands  belonging  to  the  State,  and  shall 
manage  the  same  to  the  best  interests  of  the  State,  and  in  accordance 
with  the  provisions  of  this  act  and  the  Constitution  of  the  State."  The 
same  law  also  provides:  "Sec.  47.  The  funds  arising  from  the  sa!e  or 
leose  ol'  its  agricultural  college,  scientific  school,  normal  school  common 
sc-hool,  charitable  and  penal  institution  lands,  shall  be  held  intact  for 
the  benefit  of  the  funds  for  which  said  lands  are  granted,  and  the  inter- 
est and  rental  only  shall  be  expended  for  the  purpose  of  the  grant.") 

SUPERVISION   OF   PUBLIC   SCHOOLS. 

Sec.  14.  The  general  supervision  of  the  public  schools 
shall  be  entrusted  to  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  In- 
struction, whose  powers  and  duties  shall  be  prescribed  by  law. 


THE'   UNIVERSITY. 

STATE   UNIVERSITY— UNIVERSITY  LANDS— LEASES. 

Sec.  15.  The  establishment  of  the  University  of  Wyoming 
is  hereby  confirmed,  and  the  said  institution,  with  its  several 
departments,  is  hereby  declared  to  be  the  University  of  the 
State  of  Wyoming.  All  lands  which  have  been  heretofore 
granted,  or  which  may  be  granted  hereafter  by  Congress  unto 
the  University,  as  such,  or  in  aid  of  the  instruction  to  be  given 
in  any  of  its  departments,  with  all  other  grants,  donations  or 
devises  for  said  University,  and  be  exclusively  used  for  the  pur- 
poses for  which  they  were  granted,  donated  or  devised.  The 
said  lands  may  be  leased  on  terms  approved  by  the  Land  Com- 
missioaers,  but  may  not  be  sold  on  terms  not  approved  by  Con- 
gress. 

OPEN   TO   ALL— SUPPORT   OF. 

Sec.  1(>.  The  University  shall  be  equally  open  to  students 
of  both  sexes,  irrespective  of  race  or  color;  and,  in  order  that 


10  CONSTITUTION. 

the  instruction  furnished  may  be  as  nearly  free  as  possible,  any 
.amount  in  addition  to  the  income  from  its  grants  of  lands  and 
other  sources  above  mentioned,  necessary  to  its  support  and 
maintenance  in  a  condition  of  full  efficiency,  shall  be  raised  by 
taxation  or  otherwise  under  provisions  of  the  Legislature. 

TRUSTEES. 

Sec.  17.  The  Legislature  shall  provide  by  law  for  the 
management  of  the  University,  its  lands  and  other  property  by 
a  Hoard  of  Trustees,  consisting  of  not  less  than  seven  members, 
to  be  appointed  by  the  Governor,  by  and  with  the  advice  and 
consent  of  the  Senate,  and  the  President  of  the  University,  and 
the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  as  members  ex-officio, 
as  such  having  the  right  to  speak,  but  not  to  vote.  The  duties 
.and  powers  of  the  Trustee.?  shall  be  prescribed  by  law. 

(For  further  information  concerning  the  State  University,  catalogues 
may  be  obtained  gratuitously,  postage  paid,  upon  application  to  the 
Secretary  of  the  Board  or  President  of  the  University  at  Laramie,  Wyo- 
ming.) 

PERMANENT    LOCATION     OF    THE    CAPITAL,     STATE    UNIVER- 
SITY,  l:TC.,   TO   BE   SUBMITTED. 

See.  23.  The  Legislature  shall  have  no  power  to  change 
or  locate  the  seat  of  government,  the  State  University,  Insane 
asylum,  or  State  Penitentiary,  but  may,  after  the  expiration  of 
ten  (10>  years  after  the  adoption  of  this  Constitution,  provide 
Try  law  for  submitting  the  question  of  the  permanent  locations 
thereof,  respectively,  to  the  qualified  electors  of  the  State,  at 
some  general  election,  and  a  majority  of  all  votes  upon  said 
•question  cast  at  said  election,  shall  be  necessary  to  determine 
tiie  local  ion  thereof;  but  for  said  period  of  ten  (10)  years,  and 
until  the  same  are  respectively  and  permanently  located,  as 
herein  provided,  the  location  of  the  seat  of  government  and 
Said  institutions  shall  be  as  follows: 

The  seat  of  government  shall  be  located  at  the  City  of 
Cheyenne,  in  the  County  of  Laramie;  the  State  University  shall 
l»e  located  at  the  City  of  Laramie,  in  the  County  of  Albany; 
the  Insane  Asylum  shall  be  located  at  the  Town  of  Evanston, 
in  the  County  of  Tiinta;  the  Penitentiary  shall  be  located  at  the 
City  of  KawliBS,  in  the  County  of  Carbon;  but  the  Legislature 
may  provide  by  law  that  said  Penitentiary  may  be  converted 
to  other  public  uses.  The  Legislature  shall  not  locate  any 
other  public  institutions  except  under  general  laws  and  by  vote 
of  the  people. 


CONSTITUTION. 

ARTICLE     XV. 

TAXATION  AND   REVENUE. 


LIMITATION  OF  STATE  LEVY. 

Sec.  4.  For  State  revenue,  there  shall  be  levied  annually 
a  tax  not  to  exceed  four  mills  on  the  dollar  of  the  assessed 
valuation  of  the  property  in  the  State,  except  for  the  support 
of  State  educational  and  charitable  institutions,  the  payment 
of  the  State  debt  and  the  interest  thereon. 

COUNTY   LEVY   LIMITED— POLL   TAX. 

Sec.  5.  For  county  revenue,  there  shall  be  levied  annu- 
ally a  tax  not  to  exceed  twelve  mills  on  the  dollar  for  all  pur- 
poses, including:  general  school  tax,  exclusive  of  State  revenues, 
except  for  the  payment  of  its  public  debt  and  the  interest 
thereon.  An  additional  tax  of  two  dollars  for  each  person  be- 
tween the  aces  of  twenty  one  and  fifty  years,  inclusive,  shall 
be  annually  levied  far  county  school  purposes. 

***** 

PUBLIC  MONEY  NOT  TO  BE  A  SOURCE  OF  PROFIT  TO  OFFICER. 

Sec.  8.  The  making  of  profit,  -directly  or  indirectly,  out  of 
State,  county,  city,  town  or  school  district  money  or  other 
public  fund,  or  using  the  same  for  any  purpose  not  authorized 
by  law,  by  any  public  officer,  shall  be  deemed  a  felony,  and 
shall  be  punished  as  provided  by  law. 


EXEMPTION    FROM    TAXATION.  ' 

Sec.  12.  The  property  of  the  United  States,  the  State, 
counties,  cities,  towns,  school  districts,  municipal  corporations 
and  public  libraries,  lots  with  the  buildings  thereon  used  exclus- 
ively for  religious  worship,  church  parsonages,  public  ceme- 
teries, shall  be  exempt  from  taxation,  and  such  other  property 
;n$  the  Legislature  may  by  general  law  provide. 


CONSTITUTION. 

ARTICLE     XVI. 

PUBLIC     INDEBTEDNESS. 

CERTAIN       DONATIONS       PROHIBITED— INTERNAL,       IMPROVE- 
MENT. 

Sec.  0.  Neither  the  State,  nor  any  county,  city,  township, 
town,  school  district,  or  any  other  political  sub-division,  shall 
loan  or  give  its  credit,  or  make  donations  to  or  in  aid  of  any 
individual,  association  or  incorporation,  except  for  necessary 
support  of  tht  pool',  nor  subscribe  to  or  become  the  owner  of 
the  capital  stock  of  any  association  or  corporation.  The  State 
shall  not  engage  in  any  work  of  internal  improvement  unless^ 
authorized  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  people. 


CERTIFICATE  AS   TO  DEBT   LIMIT   REQUIRED. 

Sec.  8.  No  bond  or  evidence  of  indebtedness  of  the  State 
shall  be  valid  unless  the  same  shall  have  endorsed  thereon  a 
certificate  signed  by  the  Auditor  and  Secretary  of  State  that 
the  bond  or  evidence  of  debt  is  issued  pursuant  to  law  and  is 
within  the  debt  limit.  No  bond  or  evidence  of  debt  of  any 
county,  or  bend  of  any  township  or  other  political  sub  division 
shall  be  valid  unless  the  same  shall  have  been  endorsed  thereon 
a  certificate  signed  by  the  county  auditor  or  other  officer  author- 
ized by  law  to  sign  such  certificate,  stating  that  said  bond  or 
evidence  of  debt  is  issued  pursuant  to  law  and  is  within  the 
debt  limit. 

ARTICLE     XVIII. 

PUBLIC   LANDS    AND   DONATIONS. 
ACCEPTANCE  OF  GRANTS  BY  THE  UNITED  STATES. 

Section  1.     The  State  of  Wyoming  hereby  agrees  to  accept 
the  grants  of  lands  heretofore  made,  or  that  may  hereafter- 
made  by  the  United  States  to  the  State,  for  educational  pur- 
poses,  for   public   buildings   and   institutions,    and   for   other 
objects,  and  donations  of  money  with  the  conditions  and  limi- 
tations  that  may  be  imposed  by  the  act  or  acts  of   Congress,, 
making  such  grants  or  donations,  such  lands  shall  be  disposed 
of  only  at  public  auction  to  the  highest  responsible  bidder,  after 


CONSTITUTION.  1 3 

Jiaviug  been  duly  appraised  by  the  Land  Commissioners,  at  not 
less  than  three-fourths  of  the  appraised  value  thereof,  and  for 
not  less  than  f  10  per  acre;  Provided,  That  in  case  of  actual  and 
bona  tide  settlement  and  improvement  thereon  at  the  time  of 
the  aoption  of  this  Constitution,  such  actual  settlers  have  the 
preference  right  ro  purchase  the  land  whereon  he  may  have 
settled,  not  exceeding  360  acres,  at  a  sum  not  less  than  the 
appraised  value  thereof,  <%nd  in  making  such  appraisement  the 
value  of  improvements  shall  not  be  taken  into  consideration. 
If,  at  any  time  hereafter,  the  United  States  shall  grant  any 
arid  lands  in  the  State  to  the  State,  on  the  condition  that  the 
State  reclaim  and  dispose  of  them  to  actual  settlers,  the  Leg- 
islature shall  be  authorized  to  accept  such  arid  lands  on  such 
conditions,  or  other  conditions,  if  the  same  are  practicable  and 
reasonable. 

APPLICATION  OF   PROCEEDS. 

Sec.  2.  The  proceeds  from  the  sale  and  rei.tal  of  all  lands 
and  other  \  roperty  donated,  granted  or  received,  or  that  may 
hereafter  be  donated,  granted  or  received  from  the  United 
States  or  any  other  source,  shall  be  inviolately  appropriated 
and  applied  to  the  specific  purposes  specified  in  the  original 
grant  or  gifts. 

STATE    BOARD    OF    LAND    COMMISSIONERS. 

Se<\  3.  The  Governor,  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruc- 
tion and  Secretary  of  State  shall  constitute  a  Board  of  Land 
Commissioners  who,  under  such  regulations  as  may  be  provided 
by  law,  shall  have  the  direction,  control,  disposition  and  care  of 
all  lands  that  have  been  heretofore  or  may  hereafter  be  granted 
to  the  State. 

LAWS   TO  BE   PASSED   FOR   SALE  AND    LEASE    OF   LAND— CARE 
OF    FUNDS. 

Sec.  1.  The  Legislature  shall  enact  the  necessary  laws 
for  the  sale,  disposal,  leasing  or  care  of  all  lands  that  have  been 
or  may  hereafter  be  granted  to  the  State,  and  shall,  at  the  ear- 
liest practicable  period,  provide  by  law  for  the  location  and  se- 
lection of  all  lands  that  have  been  or  may  hereafter  be  granted 
by  Congress  to  the  State,  and  shall  pass  laws  for  the  suitable 
keeping,  transfer  and  disbursement  of  the  land  grant  funds, 
and  shall  require  of  all  officers  charged  with  the  same  or  the 
safe  keeping  thereof  to  give  ample  bonds  for  all  moneys  and 
funds  received  bv  them. 


1 4  CONSTITUTION. 

LAWS    GRANTING   PRIVILEGES    PROHIBITED. 

Sec.  5.  Except  a  preference  right  to  buy,  as  in  this  Con- 
stitution otherwise  provided,  no  law  shall  ever  be  passed  by  the 
Legislature  granting  any  privileges  to  persons  who  may  have 
settled  upon  any  of  the  school  lands  granted  to  the  State  subse- 
quent to  the  survey .  thereof  by  the  general  Government,  by 
which  the  amount  to  be  derived  by  the  sale  or  other  disposition 
of  such  lands,  shall  be  diminished  directly  or  indirectly. 

UNEXPENDED    PROCEEDS. 

Sec.  (>.  If  any  portion  of  the  interest  or  income  of  the 
perpetual  school  fund  be  not  expended  during  any  year,  said 
portion  shall  be  added  to  and  become  a  part  of  the  said  school 
fund. 


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(From  the  Revised  Statutes  of  1887  and  subsequent  laws.) 

TITLE  45.     SCHOOL  LAWS. 

CHAPTER  1.  Superintendent   of   Public  Instruction. 

CHAPTER  li.  Duties   oi'    County    Superintendent. 

CHAPTER  3.  School    Districts -Organization   and   Powers. 

CHAPTER  4.  District    Officers    and   Their   Duties. 

CHAPTER  5.  School   Tax   and   the   Collection   Thereof. 

CHAPTER  0.  Miscellaneous    Provisions. 

CHAPTER     1. 

SUPERINTENENT    OF    PUBLIC    INSTRUCTION/ 

Section. 

390'!.    General  duties  of  .Superintendent. 
39U7.     Disposition   of   donated   books,    maps,    etc. 

Superintendent    may  grant   teachers   certificates. 


GENERAL,   DUTIES    OF    SUPERINTENDENT. 

Hec.  3900.  The  duties  of  Superintendent  shall  be  as  fol- 
losvs:  He  shall  file  all  papers,  reports  and  public  documents 
transmitted  to  him  by  the  school  officers  of  the  several  coun- 
ties, each  3Tear,  separately,  and  hold  the  same  in  readiness  to 
be  exhibited  to  the  Governor,  or  to  any  committees  of  either 
house  of  the  Legislative  Assembly;  and  shall  keep  a  fair  record 
of  all  matter  pertaining  to  the  business  of  his  office.  He  shall 
have  a  general  supervision  of  all  the  district  schools  of  the 
State,  and  shall  see  that  the  school  system  is,  as  early  as  prac- 
ticable, put  in  uniform  operation.  He  shall  prepare  and  have 
printed  suitable  forms  for  all  reports  required  by  this  title,  and 
shall  transmit  the  same,  with  such  instructions  in  reference 
to  the  course  of  studies  as  he  may  judge  advisable,  to  the  several 
officers  enliusled  with  their  management  and  care.  Tie  shall 
make  all  further  rules  and  regulations  that  may  be  necessary 
to  carry  the  law  into  full  effect,  according  to  its  spirit  and 
intent,  which  shall  have  the  same  force  and  efiect  as  though 
contained  herein.  He  shall  make  a  report  to  the  Legislative 
Assembly  on  the  first  day  of  each  regular  session  thereof,  exhib- 


*  REVISED    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED. 

iting  the  condition  of  the  public  schools,  and  such  other  mat- 
ters relating  to  the  affairs  of  his  office  as  he  may  think  proper 
to  communicate.  (0.  L.  1S7(>,  cli.  103,  p.  520,  sec.  2.) 

Note— The  foregoing  section  (No.  o(JO<>)  is  amended  by  sec.  1,  ch.  ."». 
law  of  1890,  amending  sections  4  and  o  of  an  act  providing  for  reports 
of  Territorial  officers  and  boards  of  public  institutions,  and  for  oth^r 
purposes,  approved  March  Nth,  l.SSS,  as  follow.-: 

(EXTRACT.) 


REPORTS. 

"Sec.  4.  Biennially,  on  or  before  the  first  d  \\  of  November 
immediately  pieceding  the  meeting-  of  the  Legislative  Assembly, 
each  and  every  Territorial  officer  (except  those  mentioned  in 
the  last  preceding  section)  and  each  and  every  commission  or 
board  of  a  Territorial  institution,  shall  report  in  wriiing  to  the 
Governor  of  the  Territory,  the  condition  of  hi*  department  or 
its  institution, as  required  by  law,  covering  the  period  since  the 
last  report  and  up  to  and  including  the  thirtieth  day  of  Septem- 
ber. The  reports  thus  required  shall  be  made  in  triplicate,  011 » 
copy  to  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  Governor,  on*  copy  for  the 
use  of  the  Council  and  one  for  the  use  of  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives." 

Approved  February  13,  1800. 

DISPOSITION   OF    DONATED   BOOKS,    MAPS,    ETC. 

Sec.  3907.  One  copj  of  all  books,  maps,  charts  or  school 
apparatus,  which  may  be  received  by  the  Superintendent  of 
1'ublic  Instruction  from  publishers,  inventors  or  manufacturers, 
shall  be  placed  by  him  in  the  public  library  of  this  Territory. 
1<\  L.  1ST*;,  ch.  103.  p.  52<;.  sec.  3.) 

SUPERINTENDENT    MAY    GRANT    TEACHERS'     CERTIFICATES. 

Sec.  3008.  The  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  slrill 
also  have  power  to  grant  certificates  of  qualification  to  teachers 
of  proper  learning  and  abiMty,  to  teach  in  any  public  school  i:i 
the  Territory,  and  to  regulate  the  grade  of  county  certificates. 
i(\  L.  187(>,  ch.  103,  sec,  4.) 

Note— Sections  o!W>.  '»010.  3011,  3012  and  3913  repealed,  laws  of  1SSS.' 
10o. 


REVISED    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED.  1 7 

CHAPTEK     2. 

DUTIES    OF    COUNTY    SUPERINTENDENT. 

Section. 

3014.     Enumeration  of  duties  and  powers. 
3915.     Failure    to    make    report — Penalty. 

3910.    May   grant  teachers'    certificates   for  two  years — Renewa.s. 
3917.     Supervisory  and   appellate  authority. 

ENUMERATION    OF   DUTIES  AND   POWERS. 

Sec.  3914,  (as  amended  by  laws  of  1888,  ch.  67,  pages  141 
and  142).  The  duties  of  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schols 
shall  be  as  follows:  He  shall,  on  the  first  Monday  of  October  of 
each  year,  transmit  to  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
a  report  containing  an  abstract  of  the  several  particulars  set 
forth  in  the  reports  of  the  district  clerks,  together  with  a  state* 
ment  of  the  financial  affairs  of  his  office  and  such  suggestions 
as  he  may  think  proper  relative  to  the  schools  of  his  county. 
He  shall  distribute  to  the  districts  within  his  county  such 
blank  forms,  circulars  and  other  communications  as  may  be 
transmitted  to  him  for  that  purpose  by  the  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction.  On  the  first  Monday  in  December  annually 
he  shall  apportion  the  county  school  tax  and  all  money  in  the 
county  treasury  beloning  to  the  county  school  fund  in  the  fol- 
lowing m.'inner:  Each  school  district  in  his  county  shall  be 
apportioned  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  for  the 
payment  of  teachers  in  such  district,  and  all  moneys  remaining 
after  such  apportionment  shall  be  apportioned  to  each  district 
pro  rata,  according  to  the  number  of  pupils  in  attendance  in  the 
schools  of  said  district  reported  to  him  by  the  several  district 
derks;  but  no  district  shall  be  entitled  to  the  amount  of  one 
hundred  and  fifty  dollars  for  the  payment  of  teachers  beside 
1Ue  pro  uifa  apportionment  as  provided  in  this  section  when 
tl'Oiv  are  loss  than  eight  scholars  of  school  age  in  said  district: 
and  he  shall  record  a  statement  1  hereof  in  his  office,  and  he  shall 
also  notify  the  county  treasurer  of  such  apportionment.  He 
shall  immediately  draw  an  order  on  the  county  treasurer  in 
favor  of  the-  treasurer  of  each  district  for  the  amount  of  its  pro- 
portion, and  transmit  the  same  io  the  treasurer  of  the  district; 
Provided,  Such  district  treasurer  shall  have  given  his  official 
bond,  which  draft  the  county  treasurer  shall  pay  1o  the  district 
treasure;'  on  presentation  of  1he  draft  properly  endorsed. 
Should  no  apportionment  of  the  school  funds  of  the  county  be 
made  on  the  first  Monday  in  December,  as  required  in  this  sec- 
lion,  he  may  make  an  apportionment,  as  soon  thereafter  as 
•practicable,  in  the  same  manner  as  hereinbefore  provided.  He 
2 


'  REVISE'D    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED. 

may  also  make  a  supplementary  apportionment  of  the  money 
in  the  county  school  fund  at  any  time  after  the  first  Monday  in 
December  prior  to  the  first  of  the  following  June,  and  such 
supplementary  apportionment  shall  be  pro  rata,  according  to 
the  number  of  pupils  in  attendance  in  any  and  all  schools  in 
each  district  as  reported  to  him  by  the  several  district  clerks 
ir.  their  last  annual  reports.  He  shall  divide  the  settled  parts 
of  the  county  into  school  districts,  and  may  alter  and  change 
ihe  boundaries  of  districts  thus  formed  from  time  to  time  as  the 
convenience  of  Ihe  inhabitants  of  the  aforesaid  districts  may 
require,  and  shall  proceed  to  make  such  change  at  any  time 
when  petitioned  by  two-thirds  of  the  legal  voters  of  any  district. 
He  shall  examine  every  person  offering  himself  or  herself  as 
teacher  of  public  schools,  and  if  in  his  opinion  such  person  is 
qualified  to  teach  a  public  school,  shall  give  him  or  her  a  certi- 
ficate authorizing  him  or  her  to  teach  a  public  school  in  his 
county  for  one  year.  Whenever  practicable,  the  examinations 
of  teachers  shall  be  competitive,  and  the  certificate  shall  b€ 
granted  according  to  the  qualifications  of  the  applicant.  He 
shall  have,  the  general  superintendence  of  the  schools  in  hi?-, 
county,  and  shall  visit  each  school  at  least  once  each  term,  and 
shall  have  power  to  dismiss  all  teachers  he  may  find  to  be  in 
competent.  (Approved  March  9,  1888.) 

FAILURE    TO    MAKE    REPORT— PENALTY. 

Sec:  3915.  Should  he  fail  to  make  his  reports,  as  required 
in  the  foregoing  section,  he  shall  forfeit  the  sum  of  one  hundred 
dollars,  and  suit  shall  be  brought  on  his  official  bond  for  the 
collection  •->!'  the  same,  with  damages,  by  the  Prosecuting  Attor- 
ney. (0.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  8.) 

MAY    GRANT    TEACHERS'     CERTIFICATES     FOR    TWO    YEARS- 
RENEWALS. 

Sec.  3910.  The  County  Superintendent  of  any  county  in 
the  Territory  may,  if  in  his  opinion  the  interest  of  the  schools 
will  be  as  well  served,  grant  a  certificate  to  any  person  of  requi- 
site ability  and  qualification,  for  two  years  or  during  his  term 
of  office,  or  may  renew  a  certificate  previously  given  to  such 
person  without  a  re-examination.  (S.  L.  1882,  ch.  101,  sec.  3.) 

SUPERVISORY   AND    APPELLATE    AUTHORITY. 

Sec.  3917.  He  shall  see  that  the  annual  reports  of  the 
clerks  of  the  several  school  districts  in  his  county  are  made  cor- 
rectly and  in  due  time,  and  shall  hear  and  determine  all  appeals 


REVISED    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED.  19 

from  the  decision  of  the  district  boards.     (C.  L.  1876,  ch.  103, 
sec.  9.) 


CHAPTER    3. 

SCHOOL   DISTRICTS—  ORGANIZATION   AND   POWERS. 

Section. 

3018.  Notice   of  formation   of  new   district. 

.'11)10.  Appeal  from   Superintendent  on  formation   of  new   district. 

:  5!  )_''!.  Qualifications  of  voters. 

3021.  First    election    of   Trustees—  Officers   or'    district. 

.'!02^.  Election   of  Trustees  where  number  increased  to  six. 

:502:j.  School   district   seal. 

:JO'_»4.  Oath    of   Directors 

.">'.)  •-!."">.  Schorl  district  to  be   body   corporate,   etc. 

:»!)•_'(:.  Regular  meetings   of  district. 

:50i*7.  Poivers  of  district  meetings. 

oOliX.  Object?  in   voting  money  to   be  designated. 

:'>'.*'2  }.  Meeting  may  adopt  rules  of  order. 

;>0:5;«.  Transfer   of    school   funds. 

Manner    of    conducting   elections   of   Trustees. 

Qualifications  of  electors  in  voting  for  Trustees. 

Annual  election   of  Trustees  —  District   officers. 

:>0;U.  'Directors  shall  qualify. 

:»:>:»."!.  Meetings  of   Board. 

lllWl.  Powers  and  duties  of  District  Board. 

.'»0.v>7.  Authoiity  of  Board  to  admit  or  remove  scholars. 

:;:»:>S.  When  Board  to  advertise  for  bids  before  contracting. 

30:!:).  Settlement   with   Treasurer—  Report   to    district   meeting. 

3040.  Visiting    committees. 

olKl  Auditing  and  payment  of  demands. 

.">l)42.  Special  district  meetings  —  Requisites  of  notice. 

304-  >.  Term  of   existing  appointees  to  fill  vacancies. 

.">!>!!.  Vafcancy  in  Board,  how  filled. 

30  4.  ~.  u.m-.i   01  distiict  Treasurer. 


30-U5.     Etablishment   of    high    schools. 

'  Separate  schools   for   colored   children. 


Employment   and  payment  of  teachers. 
3040.     School  age  —  Compulsory  education. 

30.~>l).     Liability    of  parents    and   guardians  —  Authority    of   police    offi- 
cers. 

NOTICE   OF  FORMATION  OF  NEW  DISTRICT. 

Sec.  'JO  IS.  Whenever  a  school  district  shall  be  formed  in 
any  county.  1he  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  such 
county  shall,  within  fifteen  days  thereafter,  prepare  a  notice  of 
the  formation  of  such  district,  describing  its  boundaries  and 
stating  the  number  thereof,  and  appointing  a  time  and  place  for 
the  district  meeting.  He  shall  cause  the  notice,  thus  prepared, 
to  be  posted  in  at  least  five  public  places  in  the  district,  at  least 
ten  days  before  the  time  appointed  for  such  meeting;  and 
when  a  joint  district  is  derived  from  portions  of  two  or  more 
counties,  the  County  Superintendent  of  each  county,  from 
which  any  portion  of  the  new  district  is  taken,  shall  unite  in 


20  REVISED    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED. 

giving-  the  customary  notices,  and  the  new  district  shall  be  num- 
bered by  the  superintendent  of  the  county  having  the  highest 
number  of  disti  lets.  (C.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  10.) 


APPEAL    FROM    SUPERINTENDENT    ON    FORMATION    OF    NEW 
DISTRICT. 

See.  31)19.  A  majority  of  the  voters  in  any  school  district, 
being  dissatisfied  with  the  formation  of  any  school  district, 
shall  have  the  right  to  appeal  from  the  Superintendent  to  the 
Board  or  County  Commissioners,  and  from  the  Board  of  County 
Commissioners  to  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction. 
<C.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  11.) 

QUALIFICATIONS   OF   ELECTORS. 

Sec.  3920.  All  citizens  over  the  age  of  twenty-one  years, 
who  have  resided  for  thirty  days  within  such  district,  and  who 
are  liable  to  pay  school  tax  therein,  or  in  the  county  and  none 
others,  shall  be  deemed  qualified  electors  at  school  meetings 
held  within  such  district;  Provided,  That  after  the  first  year 
of  the  organization  of  any  school  district,  no  person  shall  be 
deemed  a  qualified  elector  at  any  such  meetings,  who,  being 
liable  to  pay  a  school  tax  therein,  or  in  the  county  in  the  year 
preceding,  hath  failed  to  pay  the  same;  Provided  further,  That 
the  qualifications  of  a  voter  at  regular  school  district  elections 
for  District  Trustees  shall  be  as  provided  in  section  3932.  (C. 
L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  13.  S.  L.  1886,  ch.  93,  sec.  2.) 

MEETING   TO    ELECT   TRUSTEES. 

See.  3921,  (as  amended  and  re-enacted  by  laws  of  1890, 
i-hap.  77,  pages  153  and  154).  "The  qualified  electors  of  a 
schol  district,  when  assembled  in  accordance  with  the  notice 
required  in  Section  3918,  shall  organize  by  appointing  a  chair- 
man and  secretary,  who  shall  act  as  judges  of  the  election. 
They  shall  then  by  ballot  elect  three  trustees  possessing  the 
qualifications  of  electors  of  said  district,  and  the  name  of  each 
elector  shall  be  recorded  by  the  secretary,  and  they  shall  hold 
their  offi<-<?  until  the  next  succeeding  annual  district  election, 
and  until  their  successors  are  elected  and  qualified.  The  said 
Trustees  shall  constitute  a  Board  of  Directors  for  the  district 
and  shrill,  as  soon  as  they  are  qualified,  choose  from  iheir  num- 
ber a  Ivirecioi',  Treasurer  and  Clerk  of  the  district."  (Approved 
March  11,  1890.) 


REVISE'D    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED.  21 

ELECTION  OF  TRUSTEES  WHERE  NUMBER  INCREASED  TO  SIX. 

Sec.  :>922.  In  all  school  districts  in  this  Territory  contain- 
ing a  population  of  two  thousand  or  more,  and  in  which  the 
number  of  Trustees  has  been  increased  to  six  as  provided  by 
law,  at  each  annual  election  there  shall  be  elected  two  Trustees 
who  shall  hold  office  until  the  third  annual  election  after  the 
the  time  of  their  election.  (8.  L.  1879,  ch.  63,  sees.  1  and  2.) 

SCHOOL  'DISTRICT    SEAL. 

Sec.  ;:>!)2.*>.  It  shall  be  the  duly  of  every  Hoard  of  School 
Directors  so  increased  to  six  members,  to  provide  at  the  expense 
of  their  district,  and  for  said  district,  a  seal,  upon  which  shall 

be  engraved  the  words,  "School  District  No. ,  — 

Co.,  Wyo.  Ter.,''  stating  the  number  of  the  district  and  the 
county  in  which  it  is  situated.  The  saal  shall  be  in  possession 
of  the  Cj<-rk  of  the  district.  It  shall  be  affixed  to  all  communica- 
tions or  notices  required  by  law  to  be  sent  or  published  by  such 
School  Konrd,  and  to  all  warrants  drawn  upon  the  Treasurer 
of  the  district.  (S.  L.  1879,  ch.  63,  sec.4.) 

OATH   OF   DIRECTORS. 

Sec.  8024,  (as  amended  and  re-enacted  by  laws  of  1890,  ch, 
77,  pa-.veir»4).  "All  Directors  of  the  Board  shall,  within  ten 
days  a  far  their  election,  appear  before  some  justice  of  the 
peace  or  other  person  qualified  to  administer  oaths,  and  take  an 
oath  for  the  faithful  performance  of  their  duties  and  in  accord- 
ance with  law,  and  shall,  without  delay,  transmit  a  copy  of  said 
oath  in  writing  to  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools." 
(Approved  March  14,  1890.) 

SCHOOL   DISTRICT   TO   BE    BODY   CORPORATE,    ETC. 

See.  f.i)25.  Each  school  district  formed  under  the  provi- 
sions of  this  title,  is  hereby  declared  to  be  a  body  corporate  by 

the  nam«?  and  style  of  School  District  No. .  in  the  County 

of  -  — .  and  Territory  of  Wyoming;  and  in  that  name  it  may 
hold  property,  and  be  a  party  to  suits  and  contracts.  (C.  L. 
3876,  ch.  303,  sec.  15.) 

REGULAR   MEETINGS    OF    DISTRICT. 

Sef.  3020.  The  regular  meeting  of  each  school  district 
shall  bo  held  on  the  first  Monday  of  May  of  each  year.  And, 
when  present,  the  Director  and  Clerk  shall  preside  as  chairman 
imd  secretary  of  such  meeting.  (C.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  16.) 


22  REVISE'D    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED. 

POWERS   OF   DISTRICT   MEETING. 

See.  oi)27,   (as  amended,   sub-divisions  five  and  eight,  by 
laws  of  1888,  pag  163,  and  laws  of  1890,  page  154).    The  quali- 
fied electors  of  the  district,  when  assembled,  shall  have  power: 
First — To  appoint  a  chairman  and  secretary,  in  the  absence 
of  the  regular  officers; 

Second — To  adjourn  from  time  to  time,  as  occasion  may 
require ; 

Third — To  determine  the  number  of  schools  which  shall  be 
established  in  the  district,  and  the  length  of  time  each  shall  be 
taught; 

Fourth — To  fix  the  site  of  each  school  houe:e,  taking  into 
consideration,  in  doing  so,  the  wants  and  necessities  of  the 
people  of  each  portion  of  the  district; 

Fifth — "To  vote  such  sum  of  money  as  the  meeting  shall 
deem  sufficient  for  any  of  the  following  purposes:  To  supply 
any  deficiency  in  the  fund  for  the  payment  of  teachers;  to  pur- 
chase or  lease  a  suitable  site  for  a  school  house,  or  school 
houses;  to  build,  rent  or  purchase  a  school  house,  or  school 
houses;  and  keep  in  repair  and  furnish  the  same  with  the  nec- 
essary fuel  and  appendages;  for  procuring  libraries  for  the 
schools,  books  and  stationery  for  the  use  of  the  Hoard  and  dis- 
trict meetings;  for  purchasing  books  for  indigent  scholars  and 
to  defray  all  other  contingent  expenses  of  the  district;  Pro- 
vided, That  the  sum  of  money  so  voted  shall  not  exceed  ten 
mills  on  the  dollar  of  all  taxable  property  in  each  school  dis- 
trict; Provided  further.  That  the  tax  to  be  leviel  and  col- 
lected as  authorized  by  this  section,  shall  not  exceed  five  mills 
on  the  dollar  of  the  assessed  valuation  of  the  taxable  prop- 
erty in  any  one  year  in  all  school  districts  having  a  total  val- 
uation of  property  exceeding  three  millions  of  dollars,  or  a  val- 
uation thereof  of  less  than  two  hundred  thousand  dollars." 
(Approved  March  9,  1888.) 

Sixth — To  direct  the  sale  or  other  disposition  to  be  made 
of  any  school  house,  or  the  site  thereof,  and  of  such  other 
property,  real  or  personal,  as  may  belong  to  the  district,  and 
to  direct  the  manner  in  which  the  proceeds  arising  therefrom 
shall  be  applied; 

Seventh — To  vote  a  sum  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars 
in  aiiv  one  year,  to  procure  a  district  library,  consisting  of 
such  books  as  they  may  direct  any  person  to  procure; 

Eighth — "To  delegate  any  and  all  powers  specified  in  the 
foregoing  sub-di\isions  to  the  District  Board;  Provided, 
always.  That  the  District  Board  shall  not  have  power  to  vote 
or  raise  monf \  as  provided  in  sub-division  fifth  as  amended  and 


REVISE'D    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED.  23 

re  enacted  in  Chapter  1,  Section  12,  page  1G3,  Session  Laws  of 
The  Territory  of  Wyoming,  A.  D.  1888."  (Approved  March  14. 
1800.) 

Xiiith — To  transact  generally  such  business  as  may  tend 
to  promote  .the  cause  of  education  in  accordance  with,  the  pro- 
visions uv  this  chapter.  (C.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  17.  S.  L.  1886, 
oh.  75,  sec.  1.) 

OBJECTS  IN  VOTING  MONEY  TO   BE  DESIGNATED. 

Sec.  3928.  In  voting  money,  the  district  meetings  shall 
designate  ihe  respective  objects  for  which  the  same  is  raised, 
and  the  am  mint  to  be  raised  for  each  object,  and  the  aggre- 
gate amount  shall  be  assessed  and  collected,  as  provided  in 
this  Mile.  (C.  L.  1870,  ch.  103,  sec.  18.) 

MEETING  MAY  ADOPT  RULES  OF  ORDER. 

Sec.  3!  129.  They  may  adopt  rules  of  order,  not  incompat- 
ible with  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  and  the  instructions 
of  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  for  the  government 
of  district  meetings,  and  may  alter  and  change  the  same  from 
time  to  time  as  occasion  may  require,  and  may  prescribe  the 
manner  of  taking  the  sense  of  the  meeting  upon  any  question; 
Provided,  That  the  last  specification  shall  not  apply  to  the  elec- 
tion of  oJsicers.  (C.  L.  1870,  ch.  103,  sec.  19.) 

TRANSFER    OF    SCHOOL,   FUNDS. 

Sec.  3930.  In  all  cases  where  there  are  moneys  belonging 
ro  the  school  house  fund,  remaining  in  the  hands  of  the  district 
Treasure/  of  any  school  district,  and  the  Board  of  Directors 
i hereof  are  satisfied  that  such  moneys  are  not  required  to 
build  a  school  house,  or  school  houses,  in  said  district,  or  repair 
or  furnish  the  same,  such  moneys  may  be  transferred  and 
accredited  to  the  teachers'  fund,  and  applied  to  the  payment 
of  teaclu-rs.  And  the  Board  may  also  in  like  manner  transfer 
a  surplus  of  the  teachers'  fund  to  the  fund  for  building 
school  houses  when  required.  (C.  L.  1870,  ch.  103,  sec.  20.) 

MANNER  OF  CONDUCTING  ELECTIONS  OF  TRUSTEES. 

Sec.  3931,  (as  amended  and  re-enacted  by  laws  of  1888, 
ch.  73,  pages  105  and  100).  "At  the  regular  district  meeting 
of  school  districts  in  each  year,  at  the  time  now  provided  by 
law  for  the  election  of  Trustees,  such  district  meeting  shall  be 
opened  by  proclamation  of  the  Trustees,  at  the  hour  named  in 
the  published  or  posted  notices  for  the  meeting.  And  the 
order  of  business  at  such  meeting  shall  be: 


24  REVISED    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED. 

ORDER   OF   BUSINESS   OF    DISTRICT    MEETING. 

1.  Reading  and  consideration  of  the  report  of  the  Clerk 
and  Treasurer. 

3.  Voting  of  money  to  be  raised  by  special  tax. 
5.  Election  of  Trustee  or  Trustees. 

4.  Miscellaneous  business.'' 
(Approved  March  9,  1888.) 


QUALIFICATIONS  OF  ELECTORS  IN  VOTING  FOR  TRUSTEES. 

Sec.  3932.  Every  legal  voter  in  this  Territory,  who  shall 
have  been  a  bona  fide  resident  of  said  district  for  three  months 
next  preceding  any  such  district  election,  and  who  has  paid  a 
loll  tax  f-.-r  the  support  of  common  schools  within  the  Territory 
for  the  preceding  year,  shall  be  entitled  and  qualified  to  vote  at 
such  school  district  election  for  District  Trustees.  (S.  L.  1886, 
ch.  93,  sec.  2.) 


ANNUAL   ELECTION    OF  DISTRICT   OFFICERS. 

Sec.  3033,  (as  amended  and  re-enacted,  laws  of  1890,  ch. 
77,  page  154).  '-Except  as  otherwise  provided  by  law,  there 
shall  be  elected  in  each  organized  school  district  at  the  regular 
annual  district  meeting  on  the  first  Monday  in  May  of  each 
year,  one  Trustee,  who  shall  hold  his  office  for  three  years  and 
until  his  successor  is  duly  elected  and  qualified.  If  for  any 
cause  the  annual  election  should  not  be  held  at  the  regular 
annual  meeting,  a  special  meeting  may  be  held  for  that  purpose 
if  so  specified  in  the  notice  for  said  special  meeting.  The 
Trustees  together  shall  constitute  a  Board  of  Directors  for  the 
district,  and  shall,  immediately  after  they  are  qualified,  elect 
one  of  th?ir  number  a  Director,  Treasurer  and  Clerk  of  the  dis- 
trict. At  the  first  regular  annual  election  after  a  school  district 
is  organized  there  shall  be  three  Trustees  elected,  one  to  hold 
his  office  for  the  term  of  three  years,  and  one  to  hold  his  office 
for  the  1erm  of  two  years,  and  one  for  the  term  of  one  year,  and 
until  their  successors  are  e^cted  and  qualified,  and  thereafter 
at  each  annual  meeting  there  shall  be  one  Trustee  elected  as 
aforesaid  for  the  term  of  three  years  as  successor  to  the  outgo- 
ing member  of  the  Board,  and  all  of  said  Trustees  herein  men- 
tioned shall  possess  the  qualifications  of  an  elector  in  said  dis- 
trict and  shall  be  elected  by  ballot,  and  the  name  of  each 
elector  voting  for  Trustee  shall  be  recorded  by  the  secretary 
of  the  meeting,  and  such  record  shall  be  filed  writh  the  District 
Clerk." 

(Approved  March  14,  1890.) 


REVISED    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED.  25 

DIRECTORS   SHALL  QUALIFY. 

Sec.  3934.  Said  Directors  shall  qualify  in  the  manner  pre- 
scribed for  Directors  elected  upon  the  formation  of  a  new  school 
district,  and  in  cose  they  refuse  or  neglect  so  to  do,  they  shall 
be  subject  to  the  same  penalty.  (C.  L.  1870,  eh.  103,  sec.  22.) 

MEETINGS  OF  BOARDS. 

Sec.  3035.  The  Board  of  Directors  may  hold  such  regular 
special  or  adjourned  meetings  as  they  may  from  time  to  time 
determine.  (C.  L.  187G,  ch.  103,  sec  23.) 

POWERS   AND   DUTIES  OF   DISTRICT   BOARD. 

Sec.  31)30.  The  District  Boaid  shall  make  all  contracts, 
purchases,  payments  and  sales  necessary  to  carry  out  every 
vote  of  the  district,  for  procuring  any  site  for  a  school  house, 
renting,  lepaning  or  furnishing  the  same,  and  disposing  thereof, 
or  for  keeping  a  school  therein,  and  performing  such  other 
duties  'is  may  be  delegated  to  them  by  the  district  meeting. 
(C.  L.  1870,  ch.  sec.  14.) 

AUTHORITY   OF   BOARD   TO  ADMIT   OR  REMOVE   SCHOLARS. 

Sec.  3937.  The  District  Board  shall  have  power  to  admit 
scholars  from  adjoining  districts,  and  remove  scholars  for  dis- 
orderly Conduct;  and  when  scholars  are  admitted  from  other 
districts  the  District  Board  may  in  their  discretion,  require  a 
tuition  fee  from  purh  scholars.  iO.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  25.) 

WHEN    BOARD    SHALL    ADVERTISE    FOR    BIDS    BEFORE     CON- 
TRACTING. 

Sec.  3938.  Whenever  any  school  house  is  to  be  built  or 
any  repairs,  addition  or  improvement  costing  more  than  two- 
hundred  dollars  made  to  any  school  house  or  district  property, 
the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  district  shall  advertise  for  bids 
for  such  work,  and  in  all  cases  contract  the  same  to  the  lowest 
responsible  bidder..  (S.  L.  1880,  ch.  93,  sec.  .8.) 

SETTLEMENT      WITH      TREASURERS— REPORT      TO       DISTRICT 
MEETING. 

Sec.  3939.  They  shall,  from  lime  to  time,  examine  the 
books  and  accounts  of  the  Treasurer,  and  make  settlement  with 
him,  and  shall,  at  each  regular  meeting  of  the  district,  present 
to  the  same  a  full  statement  of  the  receipts  and  expenditures 
of  the  district,  and  such  other  matters  as  may  be  deemed  impor- 
tant. «0.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  28.) 


26  REVISED    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED. 

VISITING   COMMITTEE. 

Sec.  3910.  They  shall  appoint  a  committee  from  their  own 
body  to  visit  the  respective  schools  of  the  district  monthly,  and 
lo  aid  i  he  lea  cher's  in  establishing  and  enforcing  rules  for  the 
government  of  schools,  and  see  that  the  teachers  keep  a  correct 
list  of  ilie  pupils,  the  time  which  they  attend  school,  the 
"branches  of  learning  which  each  is  studying,  and  such  other 
matters  us  may.  in  the  opinion  of  the  Board,  tend  to  promote 
the  welfV.io  of 'the  school.  (C.  L.  187G,  ch.  103,  sec,  29.) 

AUDITING   AND    PAYING   DEMANDS. 

Si.v.  o!!41.  They  shall  audit  and  allow  all  just  claims 
against  the  district,  and  the  Directors  shall  draw  an  order  for 
all  demands  thus  audited,  on  the  district  Treasurer.  (C.  L. 
1876,  ch  103,  sec.  30.) 

SPECIAL  DISTRICT   MEETING— REQUISITES    OF   NOTICE. 

Sec.  *-.ti  12.  They  shall,  upon  the  written  request  of  five 
legal  voi  ersof  the  district,  or,  whenever  they  deem  it  expedient, 
call  special  meetings  thereof;  but  in  all  such  cases,  the  notice 
of  such  meeting  shall  clearly  state  the  precise  object  for  wrhich 
it  is  callfd,  and  the  time  and  place  at  which  it  is  to  be  held. 
(C.  L.  1x71;.  ch.  103,  sec.  31.) 

For  notice  of  district  meetings  see  section  3936. 
TERM   OF   EXISTING  APPOINTEES   TO   FILL,   VACANCIES. 

Sec.  3943.  In  case  a  vacancy  in  any  district  School  Board, 
caused  by  I  he  resignation,  death  or  otherwise  of  any  one  of  its 
members,  is  or  has  been  filled  by  appointment,  said  appointee 
may  legally  hold  said  office  until  the  next  annual  school  election 
following  said  appointment,  but  no  longer,  and  at  the  annual 
election  said  vacancy  shall  be  filled  in  the  same  way  and  manner 
as  authorised  by  law  for  the  annual  election  of  School  Trust- 
ees. (S.  L.  3886*  ch.  93,  sec.  6.) 

VACANCY   IN    BOARD   HOW   FILLED. 

Sec.  3f;J4.  When  a  vacancy  occurs  in  any  School  Board 
"by  the  resignation,  death  or  otherwise  of  any  of  its  members, 
three  months  or  more  before  the  following  annual  school  elec- 
tion, said  vacancy  cannot  be  filled  by  appointment,  bnt  a  spe- 
cial election  must  be  called  in  the  way  provided  by  law  for  the 
purpose  of  filling  such  vacancy;  but  if  such  vacancy  occurs 
less  than  three  months  before  the  next  annual  school  election, 


REVISED    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED.  27 

•such  vacancy  shall  be  filled  by  appointment  by  the  Board.    (S. 
L.  1S8G,  <-h.  93,  sec.  7.    C.  L.  187G,  ch.  103,  sec.  32.) 

BOND   OF   DISRICT  TREASURER. 

Sec.  3945.  The  district  Treasurer  shall  give  bonds  to  the 
•district  in  such  penalty  and  with  such  sureties  as  the  Board  of 
the  County  Commissioners  shall  direct  and  approve,  conditioned 
lor  the  faitlifu]  application  of  .ill  money  which  may  come  into 
his  hands  by  virtue  of  his  office;  Provided,  Said  bonds  shall  not 
exceed  one  rind  one-quarter  times  the  amount  of  all  the  school 
moneys  handled  by  said  Treasurer  in  any  one  year.  Said  pen- 
alty may  be  increased"  from  time  to  time  as  the  interests  of  the 
•district  may  require.  The  said  bond,  after  being  approved  by 
the  Board  of  County  Commissioners,  shall  be  filed  with  the 
County  Treasurer,  and  it  is  hereby  made  unlawful  for  the 
County  Treasurer  to  pay  over  any  sums  of  money  out  of  the 
school  fund  to  any  district  Treasurer  until  such  bond  shall  have 
been  approved  and  filed  as  herein  provided,  and  in  case  of  a 
Breach  in  the  conditions  of  said  bond,  suit  shall  be  brought 
thereon  by  the  Board  of  the  County  Commissioners  of  the 
comity  in  which  the  district  is  situated,  for  the  benefit  of  said 
district  (S.  L.  1884,  ch.  81,  sec.  1.) 

ESTABLISHMENT   OF   HIGH    SCHOOLS. 

Sec.  3940.  The  County  Superintendent  and  district  Board 
of  Directors  may  determine  whether  a  school  of  a  higher  grade 
shall  be  established  in  the  district,  the  number  of  teachers  to 
be  employed,  and  the  course  of  instruction  to  be  pursued 
therein,  until  the  meeting  of  the  Teachers'  Institute,  provided 
for  by  law,  at  which  time  the  Institute  shall  determine  the 
studies  10  be  pursued  in  all  schools  of  like  grade  in  the  Terri- 
tory; and  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall  have 
the  power  to  carry  into  effect  the  determination  of  the  Institute 
as  is  provided  in  other  cases;  and  the  Board  may  erect,  for  the 
purpose,  one  or  more  permanent  school  houses,  and  shall  cause 
such  classification  of  the  pupils  as  they  may  deem  necessary, 
but  in  selecting  the  site  for  such  school  house,  or  school  houses, 
the  permanent  interest  and  future  welfare  of  the  people  of  the 
entire  district  shall  be  consulted.  (C.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  33.) 

SEPARATE  SCHOOL  FOR  COLORED  CHILDREN. 

Sec.  3947.  Where  there  are  fifteen  or  more  colored  chil- 
dren within  any  school  district,  the  Board  of  Directors  thereof, 
with  the  approval  of  County  Superintendent  of  Schools,  may 


28 


REVISED    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED. 


provide  a  separate  school  for  the  instruction  of  such  colored! 
children.     (O.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  34.) 

EMPLOYMENT   AND    PAYMENT    OF    TEACHERS. 

;-*ec.  3048.  The  district  Board  shall  employ  all  teachers 
necessary  for  the  schools  of  the  district,  and  pay  them  by  draft 
on  the  Treasurer.  (C.  L.  1876,  ch,  103,  sec.  35.) 


SCHOOL    AGE— COMPULSORY    EDUCATION. 

Sec.  3949.  The  district  schools  established  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  title  shall  at  all  times  be  equally  free  and 
accessible  to  all  children  resident  therein,  over  six  and  under 
the  age  of  twenty -one  years,  subject  to  such  regulations  as  the 
district  Board  in  each  district  may  prescribe.  And  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  all  parents  and  guardians  or  other  persons  having  th^ 
control  of  children  between  the  ages  above  mentioned,  to  send 
such  children  to  some  school,  at  least  three  months  in  each  and 
every  year,  except  in  case  of  invalids,  and  others  to  whom  the 
school  room  would  be  injurious.  In  such  cases,  the  district 
Board  shall,  upon  receipt  of  a  physician's  certificate,  excuse 
such  children:  and  the  district  Board  may,  in  its  discretion, 
excuse  children  from  attendance  when  a  compliance  with  this 
litle  would  work  great  hardship.  In  all  such  cases  the  Clerk 
of  the  Board  shall  state  the  reason  for  excuse,  and  the  name  of 
the  child  or  person  excused,  and  the  length  of  time  for  which 
excused,  at  large  in  the  minutes  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
Board;  Provided,  That  in  all  cases  the  applicant  may  appeal 
from  the  decision  of  the  Board  to  the  County  Superintendent, 
whose  decision  shall  be  final.  iC.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  36.) 

LIABILITY     OF     PARENTS     AND     GUARDIANS— AUTHORITY     OP 
POLICE   OFFICERS. 

Sec.  3050.  Any  parent  or  guardian,  or  other  person,  hav- 
ing children  in  their  charge  between  the  ages  of  seven  and  six- 
teen yenrs,  who  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  comply  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  chapter,  shall,  on  conviction,  be  punished  by  a 
fine  noi  exceeding  twenty-five  dollars,  for  each  and  every 
offense,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  sheriffs,  constables  or 
police  officers,  at  all  times,  whenever  it  comes  to  their  knowl- 
edge that  any  child  is  living  idly  and  loitering  about  the  streets 
or  thoroughfares  and  spending  its  time  in  an  idle  and  dissolute 
manner,  to  notify  some  member  of  the  School  Board  of  the  dis- 
trict in  which  such  child  is  living  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to 
immediately  make  all  the  proper  inquiries  to  ascertain  the 


REVISED    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED.  29 

reasons  for  the  non-attendance  of  said  child  in  some  school  of 
the  county  in  which  such  child  may  be  found  by  said  Board; 
if  any  such  child  or  ward  is  wilfully  violating  the  conditions 
of  this  law,  it  shall  become  the  duty  of  the  County  Superintend- 
ent of  Schools,  on  written  notice  from  the  Board,  to  make  a 
complaint  before  some  justice  of  the  peace  against  the  parent 
or  guardian  of  said  child  or  ward,  or  to  make  complaint 
against  such  child  or  ward,  as  provided  in  cases  of  vagrancy, 
under  the  laws  of  this  Territory.  (C.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  37. 
:S.  L.  1877,  pp.  110  and  117,  sec.  1.) 


CHAPTER    4. 

DISTRICT   OFFICERS    AND    THEIR    DUTIES. 

.Section. 

3951.  Director  to  preside  at  meetings  and  countersign   orders. 

3952.  How  drafts  and  orders  drawn. 

395:5.  By  whom   district   to   appear  in  actions. 

3954.  Duties   of   Clerk. 

3955.  Clerk  shall  keep  accounts. 
3950.  Notice  of  district  meetings. 

3957.  Annual   report   of   Clerk  to  County  Superintendent. 

3958.  Failure  to  make  report— Penalty. 

3951).  Duties   of  Treasurer— Publication   of  report. 

5960.  Teachers'   fund. 

5961.  School  house  fund. 

5962.  Treasurer  to  receive  district  money. 
3963.  Treasurer  to  render  statement  on  request. 

DIRECTOR     TO     PRESIDE     AT     MEETINGS     AND     COUNTERSIGN 
ORDERS. 

Sec.  3051.  The  Director,  when  present,  shall  preside  at 
all  meetings  of  the  Board  of  the  district,  and  countersign  all 
orders  on  the  treasury  for  the  payment  of  money.  (C.  L.  187G, 
ch.  103,  sec.  38.) 

HOW  DRAFTS  AND  ORDERS   DRAWN. 

Sec.  3952.  All  drafts  and  orders  drawn  on  the  district 
Treasurer,  as  required  in  the  foregoing  section,  shall  specify 
the  fund  on  which  they  are  drawn,  and  the  use  for  which  the 
money  is  designed,  and  shall  be  signed  by  the  District  Clerk. 
(C.  L.'  187G,  ch.  103,  sec.  39.) 

BY  WHOM   DISTRICT  TO  APPEAR  IN  ACTIONS. 

Sec.  3953.  The  Director  shall  appear  in  behalf  of  his  dis- 
trict, in  all  suits  brought  by  or  against  the  same:  but  when  he 
is  individually  a  party,  this  duty  shall  be  performed  by  the 
Clerk.  (0.  L.  1876.  ch.  103,  see.  40.) 


3°  REVISED    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED. 

DUTIES   OP    CLERK. 

Sec.  3054,  (as  amended  and  re-enacted  by  laws  of  1890,  ch- 
77,  page  154).  ''"The  Clerk  shall  record  all  the  proceedings  of 
the  Board  and  of  the  district  meetings  in  books  to  be  kept  for 
that  purpose,  and  report  in  writing  to  the  County  Superintend- 
ent of  Schools  the  name  of  the  Director  and  Treasurer  imme- 
diately after  they  are  chosen  or  elected,  and  he  shall  preserve 
copies  of  all  reports  made  to  the  County  Superintendent,  and 
shall  iile  all  papers  transmitted  to  him  by  school  officers  or 
other  persons  pertaining  to  the  business  of  the  district,  and 
shall  sign  all  drafts,  warrant's  and  orders  drawn  by  him." 

(Approved  March  14,  1890.) 

CLERKS  SHALL  KEEP  ACCOUNTS. 

Sec.  3955.  He  shall  keep  an  accurate  account  of  all  the 
expenses  incurred  by  the  district,  and  shall  present  the  same 
to  the  district  Board,  to  be  audited  and  paid  as  herein  pro- 
vided, out  of  the  school  fund.  (C.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  42.) 

NOTICE   OP   DISTRICT   MEETINGS. 

Sec.  395(3.  He  shall  give  ten  days'  previous  notice  of  all 
regular  and  special  meetings  of  the  district,  herein  authorized, 
by  posting  up  a  written  notice  in  three  different  places  therein; 
and  shall  furnish,  a  copy  of  the  same  to  the  teachers  of  each 
school  in  the  district,  to  be  read  once  in  the  presence  of  the 
pupils  thereof.  (G.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  43.) 

For  requisites  of  notice  of  special  district  meeting,   see  sec.  3942. 
ANNUAL  REPORT  TO  COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT. 

Sec.  3957.  The  district  Clerk  shall,  on  the  first  Monday 
of  September  in  each  year,  submit  a  report  to  the  County  Super- 
intendent for  the  year  past,  then  ending: 

First — Of  the  number  of  schools  taught  in  such  district, 
the  number  of  days  each  scholar  attended  the  same,  and  the 
aggregate  number  of  days  of  attendance  of  said  school  respect- 
ively, as  certified  by  the  teachers  of  the  several  schools  of  such 
district; 

Second — The  number  of  schools  and  the  branches  taught 
in  each: 

Third — The  number  of  pupils  in  each  school,  and  of  each 
sex; 

Fourth — The  number  of  teachers  employed  in  each  school, 
and  the  average  compensation  of  each  per  month; 


REVISED    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED.  31 

Fifth — The  number  of  days  the  school  has  been  taught,  and 
by  whom; 

Sixth — The  average  cost  of  tuition  for  a  pupil,  per  month/ 
in  each  school; 

Seventh — Books  used  in  each  school; 

Eighth — The  number  of  volumes  in  the  library  of  each 
school ; 

Ninth — The  aggregate  amount  paid  teachers  during  the 
year,  the  source  from  which  the  same  was  received,  and  the 
amount  of  the  teachers'  fund  in  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer; 

Tenth — The  number  of  district  school  houses,  and  the  cost 
of  each; 

Klevenlh — The  amount  raised  in  the  district  by  tax,  for  the 
erection  of  school  houses,  and  for  other  purposes  authorized  in 
tliis  title,  and  such  other  information  as  he  may  deem  useful. 
(C.  L.  1870.  ch.  103,  sec.  44.) 

FAILURE;  TO  MAKE  REPORT— PENALTY. 

.Sec.  o',)58.  Should  the  Clerk  fail  to  file  his  reports,  as 
above  directed,  he  shall  forfeit  the  sum  of  twenty-five  dollars, 
and  shall  be  liable  to  make  good  all  loss  resulting  to  the  district 
from  such  failure,  suit  to  be  brought  in  both  cases  by  the  Direct- 
or, in  the  name  of  the  district,  on  his  official  bond.  (C.  L.  1870, 
ch.  103,  sec.  45.) 

DUTIES    OF   TREASURER— PUBLICATION   OF   REPORT. 

Sec.  3959.  The  Treasurer  shall  have  the  custody  of  all 
money*  belonging  to  the  district,  and  shall  pay  out  the  sam^ 
upon  (he  order  of  the  Clerk,  countersigned  by  the  Director;  and 
shall  keep  an  account  of  the  receipts  and  expenditures  thereof, 
in  a  book  provided  for  that  purpose.  He  shall  cause  to  be  pub- 
lished in  sume  newspaper  of  general  circulation  in  the  county 
wherein  such  school  district  is  situate,  on  the  first  week  of. 
July  in  each  year,  a  full  and  true  report  of  the  receipts  and  dis- 
bursements of  said  district  for  the  year  next  preceding  such 
report.  (C.  L.  1S70,  ch.  103,  sec.  40.  ,  S.  L.  1884,  ch.  81,  sec.  2.) 

TEACHERS'   FUND. 

Sc;c.  3900.  The  moneys  for  the  payment  of  teachers  shall 
be  called  ihe  "teachers'  fund"  and  the  Treasurer  shall  keep  dis- 
tinct and  separate  accounts  with  them;  and  no  warrant  for 
money  shall  be  paid  by  the  Treasurer  which  does  not  specify 
the.  fund  on  which  it  is  drawn,  and  the  specific  use  to  which  it 
is  to  be  applied.  (C.  L.  1870,  ch.  103,  sec.  47.) 


32  REVISED    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED. 

SCHOOL   HOUSE  FUND. 

See.  3061.  The  school  house  fund  shall  consist  only  of 
taxes  collected  in  the  district;  and  the  other  school  moneys  be- 
longing to  the  district  shall  go  to  the  teachers'  fund,  and  shall 
be  applied  to  no  other  use  except  to  pay  the  wages  of  school 
teachei-s  in  the  district.  (C.  L.  187G,  ch.  103,  sec.  48.) 

TREASURER   TO  RECEIVE  DISTRICT   MONEY. 

Sec.  3062.  The  Treasurer  shall  apply  for,  and  receive  all 
money  apportioned  to  the  district,  by  the  County  Superintend- 
ent, when  notified  of  such  apportionment.  (C.  L.  1876,  ch.  103, 
sec.  49.^ 

TREASURER   TO    RENDER    STATEMENT    ON    REQUEST. 

Sec.  3063.  He  shall  render  a  statement  of  the  finances  of 
the  district,  as  shown  by  the  records  of  his  office,  at  any  time 
when  required  by  the  district  Board.  C.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec. 

50.) 


CHAPTER     5. 

SCHOOL   TAX  AND   THE   COLLECTION   THEREOF. 

Section. 

89(54.    Tax  levy  for  school  purposes. 

396").    Duties  of  Clerk  and  Assessor  as  to  district  taxes. 
3960.     Equalization   of  assessment  and  levy   of  taxes. 

3967.  Manner   of   collecting   taxes. 

3968.  To  whom   school   moneys   paid. 

TAX  LEVY  FOR  SCHOOL  PURPOSES. 

Sec.  3964.  The  County  Commissioners  shall,  at  the  time  of 
levying  tax  for  county  purposes,  cause  to  be  levied  a  tax  for  the 
support  of  schools  within  the  county,  as  provided  by  law,  which 
shall  be  collected  by  the  County  Collector,  at  1he  same  time  and 
in  the  sam\^  manner  as  Territorial  and  county  taxes  are  col- 
lected, \\ith  the  exception  that  it  shall  be  receivable  in  cash  or 
warrants  of  the  school.  The  County  Treasurer  shall,  at  all  times 
hold,  subject  to  the  draff  of  the  proper  officeis,  all  moneys  be 
longing  to  teachers'  or  school  houso  fund.  (C.  L.  1876,  ch.  10-°>, 
sec.  51  j 

DUTY   OF   CLERK  AND   ASSESSOR  AS  TO   DISTRICT   TAXES. 

S'M-.  ,°>%5.  Whenever  a  sum  of  money  has  been  voted  by 
a  district,  ihc  Clerk  shall,  under  the  supervision  of  the  Director, 
rnakr  out  and  certify,  over  his  official  signature,  the  amount  of 


REVISED    STATUTES,    AS    AMENDED.  33 

money  voted  in  his  district,  and  on  or  before  the  fourth  Monday 
m  May,  in  each  year,  cause  the  same  to  be  filed  in  the  office  of 
the  Clerk  of  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners.  The  Clerk 
.(shall  also,  at  the  same  tim<-,  notify  the  Count}'  Assessor,  in 
\vriti lit?,  of  ihe  action  of  the  district  meeting.  The  County 
Assessor  shall,  at  the  time  of  making  the  county  assessment, 
.also  assess  the-  property  of  each  distinct  from  which  he  has  re- 
ceived notification  as  aforesaid,  and  return  to  the  County  Clerk, 
at  the  lime  of  returning  the  county  assessment  roll,  a  separate 
roll  of  each  district  by  him  assessed,  for  which  services  he  shall 
receive  five  dollars  per  day  for  the  time  actually  employed  in 
making  such  separate  asst  ssment  roll,  which  sum  shall  b?  paid 
out  of  the  treasury  of  each  district  so  assessed.  (C.  L.  1876,  cli. 
103,  sec.  52.  S.  L.  1877,  p.  115,  sec.  1.  S.  L.  18815,  ch.  97,  sec.  18.) 


EQUALIZATION  OF  ASSESSMENT  AND  LEVY  OF  TAXES. 

S"r.  :{!>(>(>.  The  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  each 
county  shall  have  the  power  and  it  is  made  their  duty  to  equal- 
ize the  assessment  and  valuation  of  the  taxable  property  of  all 
the  several  school  districts  in  the  county  which  is  assessable  by 
the  County  Assessor,  and  shall  also  have  power  to  add  to  such 
assessment  any  taxable  property  in  such  school  district  not 
included  in  the  assessments  as  returned  by  the  Assessor,  ami 
which  it  was  hist  duty  to  assess  in  the  same  manner  as  is  or 
hereafter  may  be  provided  by  law  for  county  and  Territorial 
purposes,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  County  Ooni- 
inLssieiu  rs  when  making  the  annual  levy  for  taxes,  to  levy  upon 
ihe  taxable  property  of  each  school  district  a  tax  sufficient  to 
raise  the  amount  of  money  voted  in  the  district  for  the  year, 
which  levy  shall  also  be  made  upon  the  assessed  valuation  of 
railroad  and  telegraph  property  in  such  school  district  as 
assessed  by  th<  Territorial  Board  of  Equalization.  And  the 
County  Cli  rk,  in  making  out  the  annual  tax  list,  shall  carry  out 
:n  a,  separate  column  the  amount  of  the  district  school  tax  in 
the  sam->  manner  as  other  taxes.  (8.  L.  1882,  ch.  91,  sec.  1.) 


MANNER  OF  COLLECTING  TAXES. 

Se«>.  ;>9(57.  The  taxes  and  assessments  of  all  school  dis- 
tricts for  all  purposes,  except  as  otherwise  specially  provided  by 
law.  shall  be  collected  like  county  taxes,  and  all  delinquent, 
laxes  shall  be  returned  by  the  collector  in  the  same  manner  as 
e-iher  delinquent  taxes  are  required  by  law  to  be  returned.  (C. 
L.  1,Q7'»,  ch.  !0->,  see.  54.) 
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34  REVISED  STATUTES,  AS  AMENDED. 

TO  WHOM   SCHOOL  MONEYS  ARE   PAID. 

Sec.  3968.  The  amount  of  tax  collected  by  the  County  Col- 
lector shall  be  paid  over  to  the  County  Treasurer  like  other 
taxes,  and  shall  be  held  by  said  County  Treasurer  subject  to 
the  draft  of  the  County  Superintendent," and  shall  be  paid  over 
accordingly:  Provided,  That  the  money  collected  on  the  district 
tax  rolls  shall  be  paid  by  the  Collector  directly  to  the  Treasurer 
of  the  proper  district,  and  take  his  receipt  therefor.  (C  L 
1876,  ch,  103,  sec.  55.) 

CHAPTER     6. 

MISCELLANEOUS      PROVISIONS. 
Section. 

3969.  Physiology  and  hygiene  shall  be  taught. 

3970.  Failure    to   comply   with  -last   section— Penalty. 

3971.  No  discrimination  of  pay  because  sex  of  teacher. 

3972.  Examination   in   physiology,   etc.    required. 

3973.  Teacher  to  make  report. 

3974.  Refusal   to   deliver  records   to   successor — Penalty. 

3975.  Employment  of   counsel. 

397o.  Collection  and   disposition  of  fines,   etc. 

3977.  Officer  failing  to  pay  over  money— Penalty 

3978.  Effect  of  change  in  county  boundaries  on  school  districts. 

3979.  'District  No.  2  in  Carbon   County  abolished. 

3980.  District  on  Fort  Steele  reservation  prohibited. 

3981.  Territorial    Treasurer    authorized    to    receive    donations    for 

schools. 
39S2.    Liability  of  Treasurer  for  school  money. 

PHYSIOLOGY  AND  HYGIENE  SHALL  BE  TAUGHT. 

See.  3969.  Physiology  and  hygiene,  which  shall  include  in 
each  division  of  the  subject  special  reference  to  the  effects  of 
alcohol  and  narcotics  upon  the  human  system,  shall  be  included 
in  the  branches  taught  in  the  common  schools  of  the  Territory, 
and  shall  be  introduced  and  taught,  either  orally  or  by  text 
book,  in  all  departments  of  the  public  schools  above  the  second 
primary  grade,  and  in  all  educational  institutions  supported 
wholly  or  in  part  by  the  Territory.  (S.  L.  1886,  ch.  35,  sec.  1.) 

FAILURE   TO    COMPLY   WITH   LAST   SECTION— PENALTY. 

Sec.  3970.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  several  County  and 
City  Superintendents  of  Schools  in  the  Territory,  and  of  the 
Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  all  other  educational  in- 
stitutions receiving  aid  from  the  Territory,  to  report  to  the 
Territorial  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  any  failure 
or  neglect  on  the  part  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  any  school 
district,  or  the  Board  of  Directors  of  any  educational  institu- 


REVISED  STATUTES,  AS  AMENDED.  35 

tion  receiving  aid  from  the  Territory,  to  make  proper  provision 
for  the  teaching  of  the  branches  mentioned  in  the  last  preceding 
section  in  any  or  all  of  the  schools  or  other  educational  institu- 
tions under  their  charge,  or  over  which  they  have  jurisdiction, 
and  such  failure  on  the  part  of  the  above  mentioned  officers, 
so  reported  and  satisfactorily  proved,  shall  be  deemed  sufficient 
cause  for  withholding  the  warrant  for  the  district  appropria- 
tion of  school  money  to  which  such  school  district  or  educa- 
tional institution  would  otherwise  be  entitled.  (S.  L.  1886,  ch. 
35,  sec.  2.) 

DISCRIMINATION  ON  ACCOUNT  OF  SEX  OR  RELIGIOUS  BELIEF 
PROHIBITED. 

Sec.  :>971,  (as  amended  and  re-enacted,  ch.  21,  laws  1890 
and  1891,  page1  132).  "In  the  employment  of  teachers  in  the 
public  schools  in  this  State  no  discrimination  shall  be  made  in 
the  question  of  pay  on  account  of  sex,  nor  on  account  of  the 
religious  belief  of  the  applicant  for  the  position  of  teacher, 
when  the  persons  are  equally  qualified,  and  the  labor  is  the 
same." 

Approved  December  31,  1890.) 

EXAMINATION   IN  PHYSIOLOGY,   ETC.,   REQUIRED. 

Sec.  3972.  Xo  certificate  slu-11  be  granted  hereafter  to  any 
person  to  teach  in  the  schools  of  Wyoming,  who  shall  not  pass 
a  satisfactory  examination  in  physiology  and  hygiene,  with  spe- 
cial reference  to  the  effects  of  alcoholic  drinks,  stimulants  and 
narcotics  upon  the  human  system.  (S.  L.  1886,  ch.  35,  sec.  3.) 

TEACHERS    TO   MAKE   REPORTS. 

Sec.  3973.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  teacher  of  every 
district  school,  or  graded  school,  to  make  out  and  file  with  the 
District  Clerk,  at  the  expiration  of  each  term  of  the  school,  a  full 
report  of  the  whole  number  of  scholars  admitted  to  the  school 
during  such  term,  distinguishing  between  male  and  female,  the 
names  of  such  scholars,  the  number  of  daj'S  each  scholar  at- 
tended the  same,  the  aggregate  number  of  days  attendance  of 
said  schools,  the  text  books  used,  the  branches  taught  and  the 
number  of  pupils  engaged  in  the  study  of  each  of  said  branches. 
Any  teacher  wrho  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  comply  with  the 
requirements  of  bis  section,  shall  forfeit  his  or  her  wages  for 
teaching  such  school,  at  the  discretion  of  the  district  Board. 
(O.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  56.) 


3°  REVISED  STATUTES,  AS  AMENDED. 

REFUSAL  TO   DELIVER  RECORDS  TO   SUCCESSOR— PENALTY. 

Sec.  3974.  Every  school  district  Clerk  or  Treasurer,  who 
shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  deliver  to  their  successors  in  office,  all 
records  and  books  belonging  severally  to  their  offices,  shall  be 
subject  to  a,  fine  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars.  (C.  L.  1876, 
ch.  103,  sec.  57.) 

EMPLOYMENT   OF  COUNSEL. 

Sec.  3975.  In  all  cases  where  suits  may  be  instituted,  by, 
or  against  any  of  the  school  officers  contemplated  or  created  by 
this  title,  to  enforce  any  of  the  provisions  herein  contained, 
counsel  may  be  employed,  if  necessary,  by  the  officer  instituting 
the  suit,  and  the  expense  of  the  suit  shall  be  borne  by  the  dis- 
trict, county  or  Territory  in  whose  name,  or  against  whom,  the 
same  may  be  instituted.  (C.  L.  187(5,  ch.  103,  sec.  58.) 

COLLECTION    AND  DISPOSITION   OF    FINES,    ETC. 

Sec.  3976.  All  fines,  penalties  and  forfeitures  provided  by 
this  title  may  be  recovered  by  action  in  the  name  of  the  people 
of  the  Territory  of  Wyoming  for  the  use  of  the  proper  school 
district  or  county,  and  when  they  accrue,  belong  to  the  respect- 
ive distik-ts  or  counties  in  which  the  same  may  have  accrued; 
and  the  Treasurer  for  their  districts,  and  the  County  Commis- 
sioners of  their  counties  are  hereby  authorized  to  receive  and 
apply  the  proceeds  of  such  forfeitures  as  the  interest  of  the  per- 
manent fund  is  now,  or  may  hereafter  be,  applied.  (C.  L.  1876, 
ch.  103,  sec.  50.) 

OFFICER    FAILING    TO    PAY    OVER    MONEY— PENALTY. 

Sec.  3977.  Any  officer  or  person  collecting  or  receiving 
any  fines,  forfeitures  or  other  moneys  and  refusing  and  failing 
to  pay  over  the  same  as  required  by  law,  shall  forfeit  double 
the  amount  so  withheld,  and  interest  thereon  at  the  rate  of  five 
per  cent,  per  month  during  the  time  of  so  withholding  the 
the  same.  (C.  L.  1876,  ch.  103,  sec.  60.) 

EFFECT    OF    CHANGE    IN    COUNTY    BOUNDARIES     ON    SCHOOL 
DISTRICTS. 

Sec.  3978.  If  by  any  act  of  the  Territorial  Legislature 
changing  the  boundary  line  or  lines  of  any  county  or  counties, 
or  forming  new  counties  from  counties  already  formed,  any 
legally  organized  school  district  is  or  has  been  separated  from 
the  county  to  which  it  then  belonged,  and  is  or  has  been  joined 
to  another  county,  the  members  of  the  School  Board  of  such. 


REVISED  STATUTES,  AS  AMENDED.  37 

school  district  so  separated  fioni  one  county  and  joined  to 
another  county,  shall  hold  their  respective  offices  until  the  next 
annual  school  election  following  said  change  in  count}7  bound- 
aries; aud  until  such  annual  school  election  said  School  Board 
may  draw  the  public  school  funds  for  paying  teachers,  or  other 
necessary  legal  school  expenses  f  1*0111  the  school  treasury  of  the 
county  to  which  said  school  district  formerly  belonged,  and  in 
the  same  way  and  manner  as  said  Board  would  have  drawn 
and  expended  said  public  moneys  had  no  change  in  county 
boundaries  been  made.  (8.  L.  1886,  eh.  93,  sec.  5.) 

(Note— Sections  3079  and  3980  repealed  by  laws  of  1890-1891,  ch.  3, 
page  83.)  .  

TERRITORIAL   TREASURER    AUTHORIZED    TO    RECEIVE    DONA- 
TIONS  FOR    SCHOOLS. 

Se<\  3()S1.  Whenever  the  Territory  of  Wyoming  shall  be 
entitled  to  receive  any  moneys  or  funds  from  the  United  States 
of  America,  or  from  any  other  source  or  authority,  to  be  ex- 
pended for  the  benefit  of  the  public  schools  of  the  Territory,  or 
held  or  in  any  manner  applied  for  their  benefit,  the  Territorial 
Treasurer  is  hereby  authorized  to  receive  and  receipt  for  such 
moneys  or  funds,  and  to  make  such  application  and  use  of  the 
same  as  may  be  required  by  law.  Should  such  moneys  or  funds 
be  donated  io  the  Territory,  and  should  the  act  of  donation  re- 
quire such  moneys  or  funds  to  be  applied  or  held,  or  used  in  a 
particular  manner,  they  shall  be  so  applied.  (S.  L.  1886,  ch.  101, 
sec.  I.) 

LIABILITY  OF  TREASURER   FOR   SCHOOL  MONEY. 

Sec.  3982.  The  Territorial  Treasurer  shall  faithfully  ac 
count  for  all  moneys  or  funds  received  pursuant  to  the  forego- 
ing section,  and  he  and  his  sureties  upon  his  official  bond  shall 
be  liable  for  any  failure  to  so  account  for  such  moneys  or  funds. 
(S.  L.  1881J,  ch.  101,  sec.  2.) 


LAWS  OF  1888. 


CHAPTER     72. 

SCHOOLS. 

An  .Vet  to  provide  for  the  bonding  of  school  districts  and  for 
other  purposes. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Council  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  Territory  of  Wyoming: 

CHAPTER  ONE— SCHOOL  DISTRICT  BONDS. 

AUTHORITY  TO   CALL   ELECTION  TO   DETERMINE"   UPON   ISSUE 
OF  BONDS. 

Section  1.  The  Board  of  School  Trustees  of  any  school 
district  may,  whenever  a  majority  thereof  so  decide,  submit  to 
the  electors  of  the  district  the  question  whether  the  Board 
shall  be  authorized  to  issue  the  coupon  bonds  of  the  district  to 
a  certain  amount  not  to  exceed  three  per  cent  of  the  taxable 
property  in  said  district,  and  bearing  a  certain  rate  of  interest 
not  exceeding  eight  per  cent,  per  annum,  £<nd  payable  and  re- 
deemable at  a  certain  time  not  exceeding  fifteen  years,  for  the 
pur-pose  of  building  one  or  more  school  houses  in  said  district 
and  providing  the  same  with  necessary  furniture;  Provided, 
That  in  all  school  districts  in  the  Territory  wherein  the  elect- 
ors thereof  at  a  regular  meeting  have  heretofore  authorized  the 
issue  of  bonds  for  the  aforesaid  purposes,  this  act  shall  apply, 
and  such  bonds  shall  be  issued  as  herein  provided  without  sub- 
mitting the  question  of  voting  bonds  at  another  election  there- 
in; Provided,  further,  That  the  amount  of  bonds  so  voted  does 
not  exceed  three  per  centum  of  the  assessed  valuation  of  the 
school  district. 

BOND   ELECTION— ISSUE   OF  BONDS. 

Se*\  2.  Such  elections  must  be  held  in  the  manner  pre- 
scribed for  general  or  special  elections  in  school  districts,  and 
the  ballots  must  contain  the  words  ''Bonds,  yes,"  or,  "Bonds, 
no."  If  the  majority  of  the  votes  at  such  election  are  "Bonds, 
yes,"  the  Board  of  Trustees  must  i*sue  such  bonds  in  such  form 


LAWS  OF  1888,  39 

as  the  Board  may  direct;  they  must  bear  the  signatures  of  the 
President  of  the  Board  and  be  countersigned  by  the  Clerk  of  the 
school  district,  and  bear  the  district  seal  and  be  countersigned 
by  the  County  Treasurer,  and  the  coupons  attached  to  the  bonds 
must  be  signed  by  said  President  and  Clerk  and  said  County 
Treasurer,  and  each  bond  so  issued  must  be  registered  by  the 
County  Treasurer  in  a  book  provided  for  that  purpose,  which 
must  show  the  number  and  amount  of  each  bond,  and  the  per- 
son to  whom  the  same  is  issued,  and  the  said  bonds  must  be  sold 
by  the  said  School  Trustees,  as  hereinafter  provided. 

SALE  OF  BONDS— APPLICATION  OF  PROCEEDS. 

See.  3.  The  School  Trustees  must  give  notice  in  some 
newspaper  of  general  circulation,  published  in  the  capital  of 
this  Territory,  and  also  in  some  newspaper  published  in  the 
county  in  which  said  school  district  is  located,  for  a  period  of 
not  lees  than  four  weeks,  to  the  effect  that  the  said  School 
Trustees  will  sell  said  bonds,  briefly  describing  the  same,  and 
the  time  and  place  where  such  sale  will  take  place;  Provided, 
That  the  said  bonds  must  not  be  sold  for  less  than  their  par 
value,  and  the  said  Trustees  are  authorized  to  reject  any  bids, 
and  to  sell  said  bonds  at  private  sale,  if  they  deem  it  for  the 
best  interests  of  the  district;  and  all  the  money  arising  from 
The  saJe  of  said  bonds  must  be  paid  forthwith  into  the  treasury 
of  the  county  in  which  said  district  may  be  located,  to  the 
credit  of  said  district,  and  the  same  shall  be  immediately 
available  for  the  purpose  of  building  or  providing  the  school 
house  or  school  houses  authorized  by  this  act. 

PLEDGE    OF    PAYMENT. 

Sec.  4.  The  faith  of  such  school  district  is  solemnly 
pledged  for  the  payment  of  the  interest,  and  the  redemption  of 
the  principal  of  all  bonds  which  are  issued  under  this  act. 

TAX  LEVY  TO  REDEEM  AND  PAY  INTEREST. 

See.  5.  The  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  the  proper 
county  of  each  district  must  ascertain  and  levy  annually,  the 
tax  necessary  to  pay  the  interest  as  it  becomes  due,  and  a 
sinking  fund  to  redeem  the  said  bonds  at  their  maturity;  and 
**aid  tax  is  a  lien  upon  the  property  in  said  school  district,  and 
must  be  collected  in  the  same  manner  as  other  taxes  for  school 
purposes.  Said  tax  shall  be  known  as  "district  bond  tax  of 
school  district  'No. ." 


4°  LAWS  OF  1SS8. 

REDEMPTION. 

Sec.  (.>.  Wlien  the  sum  in  the  sinking  fund  equals  or  ex- 
ceeds the  amount  of  any  bond  then  due,  the  County  Treasurer 
shall  post  in  his  office  a  notice  that  he  will,  within  thirty  days 
from  the  date  of  such  notice,  redeem  the  bonds  the:i  payable, 
giving  the  number  thereof,  and  the  preference  must  be  given 
to  the  oldest  issue,  and  if,  at  the  expiration  of  the  said  thiry 
days,  the  holder  or  holders  of  said  bonds  shall  fail  or  neglect 
to  present  the  same  for  payment,  interest  thereon  must  eeas*: 
but  the  Treasurer  shall  at  all  times  thereafter  be  ready  to  re- 
deem the  same  on  presentation,  and  when  any  bonds  are  so 
purchased  or  redeemed,  the  County  Treasurer  must  cancel  the 
same  by  writing  across  the  face  of  each  bond,  in  red  ink,  th  > 
•word  ''cancelled,''  and  date  of  such  cancellation.  The  annual 
interest  on  all  of  said  bonds  shall  be  payable  at  the  office  of 
the  Treasurer  of  the  proper  county  on  the  first  and  ten  succeed- 
ing davs  of  January  in  each  year. 


PAYMENT    OF   INTEREST. 

See.  7.  The  County  Treasurer  may  pay  out  of  any  moneys 
belonging  to  a  school  district  tax  fund,  the  interest  on  any 
bonds  issued  under  this  act  by  such  school  district,  when  the 
same  becomes  due,  upon  the  presentation  at  his  office  of  the 
proper  coupon,  which  must  show  the  amount  due  and  the  num- 
ber of  the  bond  to  which  it  belonged,  and  all  coupons  so  paid 
must  be  reported  to  the  School  Trustees  at  their  first  regular 
meeting  thereafter. 


PREPARATION  OF   BONDS. 

Sec.  8.  The  School  Trustees  of  any  district  shaal  cause  to 
be  printed  or  lithographed  at  the  lowest  rates  suitable  bonds, 
with  the  coupons  attached,  when  the  same  become  necessaryr 
and  pay  therefor  out  of  any  mowys  in  their  treasury. 

PENALTY  FOR   MIS-APPLICATION  OF  FUNDS   BY   TRUSTEES. 

Sec.  9.  Tf  any  of  the  School  Trustees  fraudulently  fail 
or  refuse  to  pay  into  the  proper  county  treasury  the  money 
arising  from  the  sale  of  any  bonds  provided  for  by  this  act, 
they  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  felony  and  upon  conviction 
thereof,  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  Territorial  Peni- 
tentiary for  a  term  of  not  less  than  one  year,  nor  more  than; 
ten  vears. 


LAWS  OF  1888.  4  I 

COUNTY  TREASURER  SHALL  HAVE  CUSTODY  OF  FUNDS— FEES. 

Sec.  10.  The  County  Treasurer  of  such  county  shall  have 
the  custody  of  all  funds  realized  from  the  sale  of  said  bonds, 
until  the  same  are  drawn  out  by  order  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  said  district,  *and  he  shall  be  entitled  to  and  re- 
ceive one-half  of  one  per  cent,  commission  for  safe  keeping  and 
accounting  for  the  same-;  Provided,  That  said  County  Treas- 
urer shall  not  be  entitled  to  any  commission  on  any  funds 
turned  over  to  his  successor  in  office. 

ADDITIONAL  BOND   OF   COUNTY  TREASURER. 

See.  11.  The  Board  of  Trustees  of  said  district  shall  re- 
quire the  same  County  Treasurer  to  give  said  district  a  sepa- 
rate bond  in  such  sum  is  said  Board  may  deem  proper,  with 
two  or  more  sufficient  sureties,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  per- 
formance of  the  duties  required,  of  him  by  this  act  and  the 
faithful  accounting  for  1he  moneys  deposited  with  him  and 
realized  from  the  sale  of  said  bonds,  as  herein  provided  for, 
and  such  bond  shall  be  approved  by  said  Board  and  shall  be 
and  remain  in  the  custody  of  said  Board  of  Trustees. 

See.  12.  (Amending  sub-division  5,  section  3027,  Revised 
Statutes,  see  page  22  of  this  compilation.) 

Chapter  2 -Misdemeanors  Concerning  Schools. 

THE   OFFENSES    DEFINED— PENALTY. 

Section  1.  Any  person  who  shall  use  insulting  and  abus- 
ive language  to  and  toward  any  teacher  in  or  about  any  public 
school  house,  or  who  shall  wilfully  disturb  any  public  school 
or  district  meeting,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,, 
and,  upon  conviction,  shall  be  fined  in  any  sum  not  less  than 
five  dollars,  and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

OFFENSES    'DEFINED— PENALTY— CONTINUED. 

See.  2.  Any  person  who  shall  wilfully  break,  cut,  deface, 
despnil,  injure,  damage  or  destroy  any  school  property,  or 
who  shall  cut,  mark,  write  or  otherwise  place  or  put  on,  or 
cause  to  he  placed  or  put  upon,  any  school  property,  any  lan- 
guage or  pictured  or  figures  or  signs  of  an  obscene  character, 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and,  upon  conviction 
thereof,  shall  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more 
than  one  hundred -dollars.  The  said  fines  shall  be  paid  into  the 

*Note— The  provision  as  to  fees  is  repealed  by  Art.  XIV  of  the  Con- 
stitution and  Laws  of  1890-91,  ch.  r>~>. 


42  LAWS  OF  1888. 

treasury  of  the  school  district  in  which  the  offense  was  com- 
mitted/ 

Chapter  3— Miscellaneous  Provisions. 

SCHOOL  WEEK  AND   MONTH  DEFINED. 

Section  .1.  For  the  purposes  of  this  act,  a  school  week 
shall  consist  of  five  days;  and  a  school  month  shall  consist  of 
.all  the  days  of  a  calendar  month  except  Saturdays  and  Sun- 
days, and  legal  holidays. 

SCHOOL  OFFICERS  SHALL  NOT  SELL  NOR  ACT  AS  AGENT  FOR 

SCHOOL  SUPPLIES— PENALTY. 

Sec.  2.  Neither  the  Territorial  Superintendent,  nor  any 
person  in  his  olVice,  nor  any  County  Superintendent,  nor  school 
district  officer,  nor  any  officer  or  teacher  connected  with  any 
public  school,  shall  act  as  agent  or  solicitor  for  the  sale  of  any 
•school  books,  maps,  charts,  school  library  books,  school  fur- 
niture, apparatus  or  stationery,  or  furnish  any  assistance  to, 
or  receive  any  reward  therefor  from,  any  author,  publisher, 
bookseller,  or  dealer,  doing  the  same.  Every  person  violating 
this  section  shall  forfeit  not  less  than  fifty  nor  more  than  two 
hundred  dollars  for  each  offense,  and  be  liable  to  removal  from 
office  therefor. 

TERRITORIAL  TREASURER   SHALL   KEEP   SCHOOL   FUND. 

Sec.  3.  The  Territorial  Treasurer  shall  keep  a  separate 
fund,  to  be  known  as  the  "school  fund,"  and  all  moneys  appro- 
priated for  school  purposes  shall  be  kept  in  such  fund. 

SCHOOL   DISTRICTS  MAY   ACQUIRE   REALTY— CONDEMNATION. 

Sec.  4.  Every  school  district  shall  have  the  power  to 
acquire,  by  purchase,  donation  or  condemnation,  any  real 
estate  situate  within  the  district,  as  a  site  for  any  public  school 
house  or  school  grounds,  and  shall  have  power,  when  the  in- 
terests of  the  district  demand,  as  manifested  by  a  majority  of 
the  electors  of  the  district  at  any  regular  meeting,  or  at  any 
special  meeting  called  for  the  purpose,  to  condemn  any  public 
or  private  real  estate,  including  highways,  streets  and  alley- 
ways, and  to  take  therein  the  fee  simple  absolute,  which  power 
of  condemnation  shall  be  exercised  in  the  manner  prescribed 
\v  law  for  the  condemnation  of  real  estate  by  railroad  corpor- 
ations. 


LAWS  OF  1888.  43 

Chapter  4. 

-COUNTY  TEACHERS'  INSTITUTE. 

Section  1.  The  County  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools 
shall  hold  annually,  at  some  convenient  place,  a  County 
Teachers'  Institute  for  the  instruction  and  advancement  of 
teachers.  Said  Institute  shall  continue  not  less  than  four  days 
nor  more  than  five  days.  The  County  Superintendent  shall  pre- 
side at  all  meetings  and  determine  the  tune  and  place  for  hold- . 
ing-  such  Institute.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  teachers  actually 
engaged  in  teaching  in  such  county  to  atend  such  Institute, 
unless  they  shall  have  a  written  excuse,  signed  by  the  County 
Superintendent.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  district  Hoard  to 
pay  all  teachers  who  attend  such  Institute  the  same  salary 
per  day  they  would  have  paid  had  the  same  amount  of  time 
bfen  spent  in  teaching.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County 
Board  of  Commissioners,  in  each  county,  to  appropriate  annu- 
ally the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars  for  the  payment  of  such 
Instructors  or  lecturers  as  the  County  Superintendent  may 
employ  to  assist  him  in  holding  the  County  Institute. 

REPEALING   SECTIONS  3009-3913,   R.    S.   OP   WYOMING. 

Sec.  2.  Sections  thirty-nine  hundred  and  nine,  thirty- 
nine  hundred  and  ten,  thirty-nine  hundred  and  eleven,  thirty- 
mi)  e  hundred  and  twelve  and  thirty-nine  hundred  and  thirteen 
of  the  Kevised  Statutes  of  Wyoming  are  hereby  repealed. 

ADOPTION  AND  USE  OP  TEXT   BOOKS. 

Sec.  3.  At  the  expiration  of  the  period  of  five  years  for 
which  the  books  now  in  use  are  adopted,  the  County  Superin- 
tendents and  City  Superintendents  of  Schools  in  the  Territory 
shall  meet  at  a  call  of  the  Territorial  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction  to  adopt  a  series  of  text  books,  and  the  books  thus 
adopted  shall  be  the  only  legal  text  books  to  be  used  in  the 
public  schools  of  the  Territory  for  the  ensuing  five  years. 

REPEAL  OP  INCONSISTENT   ACTS. 

Sec.  4.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed. 

IN  FORCE. 

Sec.  5.  This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and 
.after  its  passage. 

(Approved  March  9,  1888.)  . 


44  REVISED  STATUTES,   AS  AMENDED.  : 

CHAPTER     IT.  (Laws   1888,  p.  27.) 

DISPOSAL  OF  REVISED  STATUTES. 

An  Act  regulating  the  sale  of  Revised  Statutes. 

Be  it.  enacted  by  the  Council  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  Territory  of  Wyoming: 

(EXTRACT.) 
TERRITORIAL   LIBRARIAN   SHALL    CONTROL. 

Section  1.  The  Revised  Statutes  of  Wyoming,  published 
in  1SS7,  shall  be  distributed,  sold  and  disposed  of  by  the  Terri- 
aorial  Librarian  in  the  manner  by  this  act,  and  not  otherwise. 

DISTRIBUTION. 

Sec.  2.  All  Territorial,  county  and  precinct  officers  and 
Clerks  of  school  districts,  and  members  of  the  Legislative 
Assembly,  shall  be  supplied  with  copies  of  the  Revised  Stat- 
utes, free  of  cost,  except  as  otherwise  hereinafter  provided. 


REQUISITION    FOR,    COUNTY   OFFICERS. 

Sec.  4.  The  several  County  Clerks  of  the  organized  coun- 
ties shall,  from  time  to  time,  make  a  requisition  upon  the  Ter- 
ritorial Librarian  for  as  many  copies  of  the  Revised  Statutes 
as  may  be  actually  required  for  the  use  of  the  officers  in  their 
respective  counties. 

DISTRIBUTION   BY  COUNTY  CLERK. 

Sec.  5.  The  County  Clerk  shall  distribute  one  copy  of  the 
Revised  Statutes  to  each  county  and  precinct  officer  in  his 
county  who  does  not  at  the  time  possess  a  copy  of  the  Revised 
Statutes;  and  the  County  Clerk  shall  take  a  receipt  from  every 
officer  to  whom  lie  shall  so  deliver  a  copy  of  said  Statutes. 


(From  the  Revised  Statutes — amended.) 

PAYMENT   OF   TAXES— WHAT   RECEIVABLE   FOR   TAXES; 

Sec.  3815,  (as  amended  and  re-enacted  by  laws  of  1890- 


REVISED  STATUTES,   AS  AMENDED.  45 

1891,  ch.  10,  page  118).  "State  warrants  are  receivable  for  the 
full  amount  of  taxes  payable  into  the  State  treasury.  Money 
only  is  receivable  at  the  county  treasury  of  the  proper  county 
for  poll  tax,  school  tax,  and  the  payment  of  bonded  indebted- 
ness or  the  interest  thereon.  All  other  county  taxes  may  be 
paid  in  county  warrants  of  the  county  for  which  taxes  are  paid. 
When  a  State  or  county  warrant  of  any  kind  is  received  for 
the  payment  of  taxes  by  the  County  Treasurer,  he  shall  endorse 
upon  it  the  name  of  the  person  from  whom  it  was  received,  the 
.amount  for  which  it  was  received,  and  the  date  when  received, 
iind  from  that  date  the  warrant  shall  be  cancelled  and  shall 
not  be  re-issued.  But  when  the  county  warrant  amounts  to 
more  than  is  to  be  paid  by  the  person  presenting  it  for  the 
payment  of  taxes,  the  Treasurer  shall  give  him  a  certificate 
of  the  balance  due  after  payment  of  taxes,  which  certificate 
shall  entitle  the  holder  thereof  to  another  warrant  on  the  same 
fund  as  the  original  warrant,  on  presentation  of  such  certificate 
to  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners." 
(Approved  December  24,  1890.) 

MALFEASANCE  OF  PUBLIC  OFFICER. 

See.  9(>(>.  Everv  Clerk,  Sheriff,  Collector,  Treasurer, 
Assessor  or  other  Territorial,  county,  district,  township,  city, 
town  or  school  officer,  or  deputy  of  either,  who  shall  be  guilty 
of  any  palpable  omission  of  duty,  as  such  officer,  or  who  shall 
wilfully  or  corruptly  be  guilty  of  oppression  or  partiality  in 
the  discharge  of  his  official  duties,  or  who  shall  demand  or 
receive  pay  for  services  not  authorized  to  be  performed  by  him 
as  such  officer,  or  shall  demand  or  receive  pay  for  the  perform- 
ance of  the  duties,  or  supposed  duties,  of  any  public  officer,  un- 
less duly  authorized  in  writing  to  perform  the  duties  of  such 
•officer  m  his  place  and  stead,  shall  be  guilty  of  malfeasance  and 
shall,  upon  conviction  thereof,  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  exceeding 
two  hundred  dollars,  and  the  court  shall  have  power,  upon  the 
recommendation  of  the  jury,  to  add  to  the  judgment  of  the 
court,  that  any  officer  so  convicted  shall  be  removed  from  office. 
The  court  shall  have  power,  whenever  any  Clerk  of  the  District 
Court  or  Prosecuting  Attorney  shall  be  presented  or  indicted, 
to  appoint  for  that  occasion  a  Prosecuting  Attorney  or  Clerk, 
as  the  case  may  require,  who  shall  thereby  be  invested,  in  re- 
lation to  such  presentment  or  indictment,  with  all  the  powers 
of  Clerk  or  Prosecuting  Attorney.  It  ^hnll  be  the  duty  of  the 
court,  when  judgment  shall  extend  to  removal  from  office,  to 
cause  immediate  notice  of  such  removal  to  be  given  to  the 
proper  department,  in  order  that  the  vacancy  thus  occasioned 
•may  lie  filled.  (C.  L.  1870,  ch.  35,  sec.  96.) 


46  REVISED  STATUTES,   AS  AMENDED. 

APPLICATION   BY   SURETY  OF   SCHOOL   DISTRICT   TREASURER.. 

Sec.  304<>.  A  surety  of  the  Treasurer  of  school  funds  in 
any  school  district,  organized  under  the  provisions  of  law,  may 
at  any  time  notify  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  the 
proper  county,  by  giving  at  least  five  days'  notice  in  writing,, 
that  he  is  unwilling  to  continue  as  surety  for  such  treasurer, 
and  will,  at  a  time  therein  named,  make  application  to  the 
Board  of  County  Commissioners  to  be  released  from  further 
liability  upon  his  bond;  and  he  shall  also  give  at  least  three 
days'  notice  in  writing  to  such  treasurer,  of  the  time  and  place 
at  which  the  application  will  be  made.  (S.  L.  1883,  ch.  00,  sec. 
60S,  E.  S.  O.,  sec.  5841.) 

PROCEEDINGS  BY  COMMISSIONERS  IN  SUCH  CASE. 

Sec.  3047.  The  Board  of  County  Commissioners,  upon 
such  notice  being  given,  shall  hear  the  application,  and  if  in 
their  opinion  there  is  good  reason  therefor,  shall  requira  the 
Treasurer  to  give  a  new  bond,  conditioned  according  to  law 
and  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Board,  within  such  time  as  they 
may  direct,  and  if  the  Treasurer  fail  to  execute  such  bond,  the 
office  shall  be  deemed  vacant  and  shall  be  immediately  filled 
as  other  vacancies  therein;  but  such  original  sureties  shall  not 
be  released  or  discharged  until  the  filing  of  the  new  bond  or 
the  expiration  of  the  time,  allowed  therefor;  and  the  cost  of 
such  application  shall  be  paid  by  the  person  making  the  same. 
(S.  L.  1886,  ch.  60,  sec.  600.  R  S.  O.,  sec.  5842.) 

ENUMERATION  OF  LEGAL  HOLIDAYS. 

£«?;•.  1430.  The  first  day  of  January,  the  twenty-second 
day  of  February,  the  thirtieth  day  of  May,  the  fourth  day  of 
July,  the  day  that  may  be  appointed  by  the  President  of  the 
United  States  as  the  annual  Thanksgiving  day,  and  the 
twenty-fifth  day  of  December  of  each  and  every  year  are  hereby 
declared  legal  holidays  in  and  for  the  Territory  of  Wyoming 
(S.  L.  1886,  ch.  67,  sec.  1.) 


REVISED   STATUTES,   AS  AMENDED. 


47 


CHAPTER     43,    (Laws  1890-1891,  p.  175). 

CERTIFICATES   UPON   BONDS,   ETC.,    RESPECTING   DEBT    LIMIT. 

***** 
CERTIFICATE   OF   CLERK  OF  SCHOOL   DISTRICT  ON   BONDS. 

Sec.  -2.  The  Clerk  of  each  school  district  of  each  county 
shall  endorse  a  certificate  upon  ever}*  bond  or  evidence  of  debt 
issued  jwrswuit  to  law,  that  the  same  is  within  the  lawful  debt 
limit  of  such  school  district,  and  is  issued  according  to  law. 
He  shall  sign  such  certificate  in  his  official  character. 

*  *  •»  *  * 

(Approved  efanuarv  9,  1891.) 


CHAPTER    3. 

BLIND,  DEAF  AND   DUMB  INSTITUTE. 

Section. 

3725.  Creation   of  Institute— Limitation, 

372(5.  Board  of  Trustees. 

372V.  Organization  of  Board. 

372S.  Oath  of  Trustees— Duties  of  President  and  Secretary. 

3720.  Powers   of   Trustees. 

3730.  Expenses  to  be  confined  to  appropriation. 

3731.  Payment  of  expenses— Compensation   of  Trustees. 

3732.  Inmates  not  residents  of  Territory. 

3733.  Who  admitted  to  Institute. 

3734.  Assessor  to  report  names  of  afflicted. 

3735.  Pupils  to  be  properly  clothed — Payment  of  expense. 
3730.  Officers  and  their  duties. 

3737.  Duties  of  matron. 

3738.  President  to  make  annual  report  to  Governor. 

CREATION   OF    INSTITUTE— LIMITATION. 

Sec.  3725.  There  shall  be  located  and  permanently  main- 
tained, at  the  City  of  Cheyenne,  in  the  County  of  Laramie,  an 
institute  for  the  support  and  education  of  the  blind,  deaf  and 
dumb;  Provided,  That  no  institute  shall  be  opened  until 
there  are  twelve  pupils  ready  and  that  will  enter  said  school, 
and  when  the  number  of  pupils  shall  fall  below  the  number  of 
ei^ht,  then  said  institute  shall  close.  (S.  L.  1886,  ch.  77,  sec.  1.) 


4^  REVISED   STATUTES,    AS   AMENDED. 

BOND  OF  TRUSTEES. 

Sec.  3720,  (amended — see  note  following  this  chapter). 
Said  institute  shall  be  under  the  supervision  of  a  Board  of 
Trustees,  consisting  of  three  persons,  who  shall  be  appointed 
by  the  Governor  and  confirmed  by  the  Territorial  Council; 
said  Trustees  shall  hold  office  for  tAvo  years,  and  until  their 
successors  are  appointed  and  qualified,  subject  to  removal  for 
cause.  \Vhen  a  vacancy  occurs  in  said  Board,  by  death,  resig- 
nation or  removal,  and  if  the  Council  shall  not  be  in  session, 
the  Governor  shall  have  power  to  fill  such  vacancy  by  appoint- 
ment. (S.  L.  1880,  ch.  77,  sec.  2.» 

ORGANIZATION    OF   BOARD. 

Sec.  3727.  Said  Trustees  shall  meet  at  the  City  of  Chey- 
enne, within  one  month  from  the  date  of  their  appointment, 
for  the  purpose  of  organization.  They  shall  choose  one  of  their 
number  for  President,  and  another  for  Secretary  of  said  Board. 
In  the  absence  of  the  President,  a  President  pro  tempore  may 
be  named  to  perform  the  duties  of  President.  Two  of  said 
Trustees  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  busi- 
ness. (S.  L.  1880,  ch.  77,  sec.  3.) 

OATH  OF  TRUSTEES— DUTIES  OF  PRESIDENT  AND  SECRETARY. 

Sec.  3728.  Each  member  of  said  Board  shall,  before  enter- 
ing upon  his  duties,  take  and  subscribe  an  oath  to  support  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States,  the  organic  act  of  this  Terri- 
tory, and  that  he  will  faithfully  discharge  the  duties  required 
of  him  by  the  provisions  of  tlri*  chapter.  The  President  shall 
preside  at  all  meetings  of  the  Board  when  present,  and  sign 
all  certificates  of  indebtedness,  bills  and  all  papers  approved 
or  allowed  by  said  Board.  The  Secretary  shall  keep  a  correct 
record  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Board,  and  have  charge  of,  in 
trust  for  the  institute,  all  papers,  records  and  accounts  of  the 
same.  (S.  L.  1880,  ch.  77,  sec.  4.) 

POWERS  OF  TRUSTEES. 

See.  3720.  Said  Board  shall  have  the  general  supervision 
of  the  institute,  adopt  rult>s  for  the  government  there  if.  em- 
ploy officers,  teachers  and  servants,  provide  necessaries  for  the 
institute,  and  perform  all  other  acts  necessary  to- render  it  effi- 
cient, and  to  carry  out  the  purposes  (>f  its  establishment.  (S. 
L.  1SSG,  ch.  77,  see.  5.) 


REVISED   STATUTES,   AS  AMENDED.  49 

EXPENSES  TO  BE  CONFINED  TO  APPROPRIATION. 

Sec.  3730.  lhe  Board  shall  not  create  any  indebtedness 
against  the  institute  exceeding  the  amount  appropriated  by  the 
Legislature  for  the  use  thereof.  (S.  L.  1886,  ch.  77,  sec.  6.) 

PAYMENT   OF   EXPENSES—  COMPENSATION   OF   TRUSTEES. 

Sec.  3731.  All  indebtedness  incurred  by  said  Board  in 
<caiTying  out  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  together  with  the 
compensation  of  five  dollars  per  day  for  the  time  actually  em- 
ployed in  such  services,  and  also  the  necessary  traveling  ex- 
penses of  each,  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  Territorial  treasury 
upon  a  certificate  of  the  President  of  the  Board,  stating  the 
items  of  such  indebtedness,  expenses  and  compensation,  and 
1hat  the  same  is  just  and  necessary,  according  to  he  provisions 
of  this  ch:ipt  :  r,  and  upon  the  presentation  of  said  certificate 
to  the  Auditor  of  the  Territory,  he  shall  issue  his  warrant  or 
Warrants  1o  the  party  or  parties  to  whom  such  money  is  due 
•and  payable,  and  the  Territorial  Treasurer  shall  pay  such  war- 
rants out  of  any  moneys  appropriated  for  that  purpose.  But 
the  Auditor  shall  not  issue  any  warrant  without  an  itemized 
tic  count,  properly  sworn  to.  accompanying  the  certificate  of  the 
President,  of  the  Board.  Said  accounts  may  be  sworn  to  before 
the  President,  of  said  Board,  who  is  hereby  authorized  and  em- 
powered  to  administer  oaths  for  that  purpose.  (S.  L.  1886,  ch. 
77,  sec,  7.) 

INMATES  NOT  RESIDENTS  OF  TERRITORY. 

S^c.  3732.  Persons  not  residents  of  this  Territory,  of 
suitable4  age  and  capacity,  shall  be  entitled  to  an  education  in 
said  institute  on  paying  to  the  Territorial  Treasurer  the  sum 
of  three  hundred  dollars  per  annum,  in  advance.  (S.  L.  1880, 
ch.  77,  sec.  S.) 

WHO   ADMITTED  TO  INSTITUTE. 


of  tl 

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.  3733.  Every  blind,  deaf  or  dumb  person,  who  is  a 
resident  of  this  Territory,  of  suitable  age  and  capacity,  shall  be 
entitled  to  receive  an  education  in  said  institute  at  the  expense 
of  the  Territory.  (S.  L.  1880,  ch.  77,  sec.  0.) 


ESSOR   TO    REPORT    NAMES    OF   AFFLICTED. 

Pec.  3734.     The  County  Assessor  of  each  county  shall  an- 
nually report  to  the  County  Clerk  the  names,  ages,  postomee 
address  and  names  of  parents  or  guardians,  of  every  blind, 
deaf  or  dumb  person  between  the  ages  of  seven  and  twenty- 
4 


5°  REVISED   STATUTES,    AS  AMENDED. 

(iiK*  years,  residing;  in  liis  county,  including  all  such  persons  as 
may  be  too  deaf  to  acquire  an  education  in  the  common  schools. 
The  County  CVik  shall,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  August 
in  each  year,  send  a  list  containing  the  names,  ages  and  resi- 
dences of  all  such  persons  to  the  principal  of  the  institute.  8. 
L.  1880,  ch.  77,  sec.  10.) 

PUPILS  TO  BE  PROPERLY  CLOTHED— PAYMENT  OF  EXPENSE 

Sec.  3735.  When  the  pupils  of  said  institute  are  n  >t  oth- 
erwise- supplied  with  clothing,  they  shall  be  furnished  by  the 
principal,  who  shall  make  out  an  account  of  the  cost  thereof 
in  each  case  against  the  parent  or  guardian,  and  against  the 
pupil  if  he  or  she  have  no  parent  or  guardian,  which  account 
shall  be  certified  to  be  correct  by  the  principal,  and  when  so 
certified  such  an  account  shall  be  presumed  to  be  correct  in  all 
courts.  The  principal  shall  thereupon  remit  such  accounts  bv 
mail  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  county  from  which  the  pupil  so 
supplied  shall  have  come  to  said  institute.  Such  Treasurer 
shall  proceed  at  once  to  collect  the  same  by  suit  in  the  name 
of  his  county,  if  necessary,  and  pay  the  same  into  the  Terri 
torial  treasury;  the  principal  shall  at  the  same  time  remit  a 
duplicate  of  such  account  to  the  Auditor  of  the  Territory,  who 
shall  credit  the  same  to  the  account  of  the  institute,  and 
charge  it  to  the  proper  county;  Provided,  If  it  shall  appear 
by  the  affidavit  of  three  disinterested  citizens  of  the  county, 
not  akin  to  the  pupil,  that  the  said  pupil  or  his  or  her  parents 
would  bo  unreasonably  oppressed  by  such  suit,  then  such 
Treasurer  shall  not  commence  the  said  suit,  but  shall  credit 
the  same  to  the  Territory  on  his  books,  and  report  the  amount 
of  such  account  to  the  Board  of  Commissioners  of  his  county, 
and  the  said  Board  shall,  out  of  the  general  fund  of  said  county, 
cause  the  same  to  be  paid  into  the  Territorial  treasury.  (S. 
L.  1880,  ch.  77,  sec.  11.) 

OFFICERS  AND   THEIR  DUTIES. 

Sec.  3730.  The  officers  of  the  institute  shall  be  a  princi- 
pal and  a  matron.  The  principal  shall  be  a  resident  officer  of 
the  same.  He  shall  annually  certify  to  the  Board  of  Trustees 
a,  written  report,  stating  in  full  the  true  condition  of  the  educa- 
tional, the  domestic  and  the  industrial  departments  of  the  in- 
stitute, his  aetion  and  proceedings  therein.  He  shall  keep  and 
have  charge  of  the  necessary  records,  register  and  accounts 
of  said  departments;  have  supervision  of  its  teachers,  pupils 
and  servants,  and  perform  such  other  duties  as  the  Board  may 
require.  He  shall  quarterly  certify  to  the  Board  a  full  and 


REVISED  STATUTES,   AS  AMENDED.  51 

written  report  of  all  his  expenditures.  He  shall  secure  and 
employ  all  assistants  needed  therein,  with  the  consent  and 
approval  of  the  Hoard.  He  shall  have  special  charge  of  the 
male  pupils  out  of  school  hours,  and  shall  furnish  them  with 
employment  about  the  premises,  or  in  some  trade  to  which  they 
are  adapted.  The  products  and  proceeds  arising  frgm  the 
labor  and  employment  of  all  the  pupils  shall  inure  to  the  use 
and  benefit  of  the  institute.  (S.  L.  1880,  ch.  77,  sec.  12.) 

DUTIES   OF   MATRON. 

Sec.  3737.  The  matron  of  the  institute  shall  also  be  a 
resident  officer  of  the  same.  She  shall  have  control  of  the  in- 
ternal management  of  the  house,  and  of  the  female  pupils  out 
of  school  hours;  she  shall  instruct  them  in  and  about  the  house, 
and  the  domestic  departments,  or  in  some  trade  to  which  they 
arc  adapted,  under  the  direction  of  the  principal.  (S.  L.  1886, 
ch.  77,  sec.  13.) 

PRESIDENT  TO  MAKE  ANNUAL  REPORT  TO  GOVERNOR. 

Sec.  373S.  The  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall, 
on  or  before  the  first  day  of  December  in  each  year,  make  out 
TO  the  Governor  of  the  Territory  a  full  and  complete  report, 
as  follows,  to-wit: 

First — A  statement  of  the  financial  condition  of  the  insti- 
tute from  the  date  of  the  last  report,  giving  in  detail  the 
amount  of  moneys  received  from  all  sources,  and  the  amount 
expend*  -d ; 

Second — The  value  of  real  estate  at  date  of  last  report, 
and  cost  of  improvements  made,  if  any,  since  last  report; 

Third — The  number  of  pupils  in  attendance,  also  the  num- 
ber that  have  entered  and  the  number  of  those  who  may  have 
left  it  since. last  report; 

Fourth — The  number  of  deaths,  if  any,  that  have  occurred 
in  the  institute  since  last  report; 

Fifth — The  improvement,  health  anji  discipline  of  the 
pupils ; 

Sixth— The  number  of  officers,  teachers  and  servants  em- 
ployed, with  the  salary  of  each; 

Seventh — All  other  needful  information  touching  every 
point  that  may  be  deemed  of  interest  to  be  communicated.  (S. 
L.  1886,  ch.  77,  sec.  14.) 

PROVISION  FOR  TEMPORARY  CARE  OF  BLIND,  DEAF  AND 
DUMB. 

Note— Under   chap.    15,    laws   1890-91,    approved   December   24.    1890, 
temporary  provision  is  made,  until  the  opening  of  the  State  Blind,  Deaf 


52  LAWS  OF  1890-91. 

and  Dumb  Institute    for  the  care  of  the  blind,  deaf  and  dumb,   and  an 
appropriation  of  seven  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  is  made  for  this  pur- 


INSTITUTE  TRANSFERRED  TO   CONTROL,  OF  STATE   BOARD  OF 
CHARITIES  AND  REFORM. 

Under  the  provision  of  sec.  2,  chap.  37,  laws  of  1890-1891,  approved 
January  8th,  1891,  general  supervision  and  control  of  the  Deaf,  Dumb 
and  Blind  Institute  at  Cheyenne,  Wyo.,  is  transferred  to  the  State  Board 
of  Charities  and  Reform,  comprising  the  State  Treasurer,  State  Auditor, 
and  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  by  whom  deaf,  dumb 
and  blind  persons  within  the  State  are  now  being  educated  in  institu- 
tions of  other  States  until  such  time  as  the  number  of  persons  requiring 
such  tuition  shall  be  sufficient  to  enable  the  State  institution  to  be 
opened  and  put  in  operation  as  provided  by  the  law  creating  it. 


CHAPTER     35. 

AOPTION  OF  REVISED  STATUTES,  AND  SESSION  LAWS  OF  1888 

AND    1890. 


REVISED  STATUTES  AND  LA*WS  OF  1888  AND  1890,  ARE  LAWS 
OF  STATE  IF  NOT  IN  CONFLICT  WITH  CONSTITUTION  EX- 
CEPT AS  REPEALED  OR  AMENDED. 

Section  1.  That  all  oi  the  Revised  Statutes,  and  Session 
Laws  of  the  years  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty  eight  and  eigh- 
teen hundred  and  ninety  of  the  Territory  (now  State)  of  Wyo- 
ming, in  so  far  as  they  do  not  conflict  with,  and  are  not  repug- 
nant to,  the  provisions  of  the  Constitution  of  the  State  of  Wyo- 
ming, be  and  the  same  are  hereby  declared  to  be  in  full  force 
and  effect,  and  they  are  hereby  made  the  laws  of  the  State  of 
Wyoming,  except  in  so  far  as  they  may  have  been  or  may  bo 
repealed,  or  amended  and  re  enacted,  by  the  Legislature  of 
Wyoming. 

CONFLICTING  ACTS  REPEALED. 

Sec.  2.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  in  conflict  with  this  act 
are  hereby  repealed 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and 
after  its  passage. 

Approved  January  8,  1891. 


LAWS  OP  1890-01.  53 


UNIVERSITY     OF    WYOMING. 

Note— The  laws  relating  to  the  issue  and  payment  of  the  University 
building  bonds  are  herein  omitted. 

An  Act  of  Incorporation. 

An  Act  to  amend  so  much  of  chapter  one,  title  forty-two,  of 
the  Revised  Statutes  of  Wyoming,  as  relates  to  the  estab- 
lishment, government  and  maintenance  of  the  University 
of  Wyoming: 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

That  so  much  of  chapter  one  of  title  forty-two  of  the 
Eevised  Statutes  of  Wyoming  as  relates  to  the  establishment, 
government  and  maintenance  of  the  University  of  Wyoming 
is  hereby  amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  1.  There  is  established  in  this  State,  at  the  City 
of  Laramie,  an  institution  of  learning  under  the  name  and  style 
of  the  "University  of  Wyoming." 

Sec.  2.  The  objects  of  such  University  shall  be  to  provide 
an  efficient  means  of  imparting  to  young  men  and  young 
women,  without  regard  to  color,  on  equal  terms,  a  liberal  edu- 
cation, together  with  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  various 
branches  connected  with  the  scientific,  industrial  and  profes- 
sional pursuits.  To  this  end  it  shall  embrace  colleges  or  de- 
partments of  letters,  of  science  and  of  the  arts,  together  with 
such  professional  or  other  departments  as  in  the  course  of  time 
may  be  connected  therewith.  The  department  of  letters  shall 
embrace  a  liberal  course  of  instruction  in  language,  literature 
and  philosophy,  together  with  such  courses  or  parts  of  courses 
in  the  college  or  department  of  science  as  are  deemed  neces- 
sary. 

The  college  or  department  of  science  shall  embrace  courses 
of  instruction  in  the  mathematical,  physical  and  natural  sci- 
ences, together  with  such  courses  in  language,  literature  and 
philosophy  as  shall  constitute  a  liberal  education.  The  college 
or  department  of  arts  shall  embrace  courses  of  instruction  in 
the  practical  and  fine  arts;  especially  in  the  application  of  sci- 
ence to  the  arts  of  mining  and  metallurgy,  mechanics,  engi- 
neering, architecture,  agriculture  and  commerce,  together  with 
instruction  in  military  tactics  and  in  such  branches  in  the  de- 
partment of  letters  as  are  necessary  to  a  proper  fitness  of  stu- 


54  LAWS  OF  1890-91. 

dents  for  their  chosen  pursuits,  and  as  soon  as  the  income  of 
the  University  shall  allow,  in  such  order  as  the  wants  of  the 
public  shall  seem  to  require,  the  said  courses  in  the  sciences 
and  their  practical  applications  shall  be  expanded  into  full  and 
distinct  schools  and  departments. 

Sec.  3.  The  government  of  the  University  shall  rest  in  a 
board  of  nine  Trustees  to  be  appointed  by  the  Governor,  three, 
and  only  three,  of  whom  shall  at  all  times  be  residents  of  the 
County  of  Albany;  together  with  the  President  of  the  Univer- 
sity and  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  as 
members,  ex-officio,  as  such  having  the  right  to  speak  but  not 
to  vote. 

The  term  of  office  of  the  Trustees  appointed  shall  be  six 
years,  except  as  provided  in  the  next  succeeding  section. 

Sec.  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Governor,  during  the 
present  session  of  the  Legislature,  to  nominate,  and  by  and 
with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate  to  appoint,  nine 
residents  of  the  State  as  members  of  the  said  Board  of  Trust- 
ees; throe  of  whom  shall  serve  for  two  years,  three  of  whom 
shall  serve  for  four  years,  and  three  of  whom  shall  serve  for 
six  years;  and  thereafter  during  the  session  of  each  succeeding 
Legislature  the  Governor  shall  nominate,  and  by  and  with  the 
advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  appoint  successors  to  those 
of  said  Trustees  whose  term  of  office  shall  have  expired,  or  will 
expire  before  the  next  session  of  the  Legislature.  Any  vacancy 
in  the  Board  of  Trustees  caused  by  death,  resignation  or  re- 
moval from  the  State,  or  otherwise,  shall  be  filled  by  appoint- 
ment to  be  made  by  the  Governor,  which  appointment  shall 
continue  until  the  next  session  of  the  Legislature,  and  no 
longer,  "but  no  member  of  the  Faculty,  while  holding  that  posi- 
tion, shall  be  appointed  a  Trustee/'  » 

Sec.  5.  The  Board  of  Trustees  and  their  successors  in 
office  shall  constitute  a  body  corporate  by  the  name  of  "The 
Trustees  of  the  University  of  Wyoming/'  They  shall  possess 
all  the  powers  necessary  or  convenient  to  accomplish  the 
objects  and  perform  the  duties  prescribed  by  law,  and  shall 
have  the  custody  of  the  books,  records,  buildings  and  all  other 
property  of  the  University.  The  Board  shall  have  power  to 
elect  a  President,  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  who  shall  perform 
such  duties  as  are  prescribed  in  the  by-laws  of  the  Board.  The 
Treasurer  shall  execute  such  bond,  with  approved  sureties,  in 
double  the  sum  likely  to  come  into  his  hands,  for  the  faithful 
discharge  of  his  duties,  as  the  Board  shall  require.  The  term 
of  office  of  said  officers,  their  duties  severally,  and  the  times 
of  holding  meetings,  shall  be  fixed  in  the  bylaws  of  the  Board. 
A  majority  of  the  Board  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the 


LAWS  OF  1890-91.  55 

transaction  of  business,  but  a  less  number  may  adjourn  from 
time  to  time,  and  all  routine  business  may  be  entrusted  to  an 
-executive  committee  of  three  members,  subject  to  such,  condi- 
tions as  the  by-laws  of  the  Board  shall  prescribe.  The  actual 
and  necessary  traveling  expenses  of  non-resident  members  in 
attending  The  annual  meeting  of  the  Board  may  be  audited  by 
the  Auditing  Committee  thereof  and  paid  by  warrants  on  the 
Treasure?  out  of  the  general  fund  of  the  University. 

Sec.  G.  The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  prescribe  rules  for 
the  government  of  the  University  in  all  its  branches,  elect  the 
requisite  officers,  professors,  instructors  and  employes,  any 
of  whom  may  be  removed  for  cause,  as  wrell  as  fix  the  salary 
and  term  of  office  of  each,  prescribe  the  studies  to  be  pursued 
and  the  text  books  to  be  used,  and  determine  the  qualifications 
of  applicants  for  admission  to  the  various  courses  of  study; 
but  no  instruction,  either  sectarian  in  religion  or  partisan  in 
politics,  shall  ever  be  allowed  in  any  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity, and  no  sectarian  or  partisan  test  shall  ever  be  exercised 
or  allowed  in  the  appointment  of  Trustees,  or  in  the  election 
or  removal  of  professors,  teachers  or  other  officers  of  the  Uni- 
versity, or  in  the  admission  of  students  thereto,  or  for  any 
purpose  whatever.  The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  have  the 
power  to  confer  such  degrees  and  grant  such  diplomas  as  are 
usual  in  universities,  or  as  they  shall  deem  appropriate; 
through  by  laws,  to  confer  upon  the  Faculty  the  power  to  sus- 
pend or  expel  students  for  causes  therein  prescribed;  to  pos- 
sess and  use  for  the  benefit  of  the  institution  all  property  of 
the  University;  to  hold,  manage,  lease,  or  dispose  of,  according 
to  law,  any  real  or  personal  estate,  as  shall  be  conducive  to 
the  welfare  of  the  institution;  to  expend  the  income  placed 
under  their  control,  from  whatever  source  derived;  and,  finally, 
to  exercise  any  and  all  other  functions  properly  belonging  to 
such  a,  Board  and  necessary  to  the  prosperity  of  the  Univer- 
sity in  all  of  its  departments. 

Sec.  7.  At  the  close  of  each  fiscal  year  the  Trustees, 
through  their  President,  shall  make  a  report  in  detail  to  the 
Governor,  exhibiting  the  progress,  condition  and  wants  of  the 
University,  and  of  each  school  or  department  thereof,  the 
course  of  study  in  each,  the  number  of  professors  and  students, 
the  amount  of  receipts  and  disbursements,  together  with  the 
nature,  costs  and  results  of  all  important  investigations,  and 
such  other  information  as  they  may  deem  important  or  as  may 
be  required  by  any  law  of  this  State  or  of  the  United  States. 

Sec.  8.  The  President  and  professors  of  the  University 
shall  be  styled  "The  Faculty,"  and  shall  have  power,  as  such 
body,  to  enforce  the  rules  and  regulations  adopted  by  the 


5  LAWS  OF  1S90-91. 

Trustees  for  the  government  of  students,  to  reward  and  censure 
students  as  they  may  deserve,  and  generally  to  exercise  such 
discipline,  in  harmony  with  the  said  regulations,  a,s  shall  be 
necessary  to  the  good  order  of  the  institution;  to  present  to  the 
Trustees  for  degrees  and  honors  such  students  as  are  entitled 
thereto,  and  in  testimony  thereof  Avhen  ordered  by  the  Board,, 
suitable  diplomas,  certificates,  or  other  testimonials,  under 
seal  of  the  University  and  the  signatures  of  the  Faculty. 
When,  in  course  of  time,  distinct  colleges  or  departments  of 
the  University  are  duly  organized  and  in  active  operation,  the 
immediate  government  of  such  departments  shall,  in  like  man- 
ner, b'3  entrusted  to  their  respective  faculties. 

Sec.  9.  The  President  of  the  University  shall  be  Presi- 
dent of  the  several  faculties  and  the  executive  head  of  all  the 
departments.  As  such,  subject  to  the  Board  of  Trustees,  he 
shall  have  authority  to  give  general  direction  to  the  instruction 
and  investigations  of  the  several  schools  and  departments,  and 
so  long  as  the  interests  of  the  institution  require  it,  he  may  be 
charged  with  the  duties  of  one  of  the  professorships. 

Sec.  10.  To  the  end  that  none  of  the  youth  of  the  State 
who  crave  the  benefits  of  higher  education  may  be  denied  them, 
and  that  all  may  be  encouraged  to  avail  themselves  of  the 
advantages  offered  by  the  University,  tuition  shall  be  as  nearly 
free  as  possible,  and  it  shall  be  wholly  free  to  such  students 
from  each  county  as  are  selected  and  appointed  by  the  Board 
of  County  Commissioners  therein. 

Sec.  11.  After  any  student  has  graduated  from  either  of 
the  chief  departments  of  the  University,  and  received  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  of  Letters,  of  Philosophy  or  of  Sci- 
ence, and  has  had  a  subsequent  expeerience  as  a  successful 
teacher  of  a  public  school  in  Wyoming  for  a  period  of  one 
school  year,  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
shall  have  authority  to  countersign  the  diploma  of  such  teacher 
after  such  examination  as  to  moral  character,  learning  and 
ability  to  teach,  as  to  the  said  Superintendent  may  seem  proper; 
and  such  graduate  so  tested  shall,  after  his  diploma,  has  been 
countersigned  by  the  State  Superintendent  as  aforesaid,  b? 
qualified  to  teach  in  any  of  the  public  schools  of  this  State;  and 
the  diploma  so  countersigned  shall  be  his  certificate  for  such 
qualification  until  annulled  by  the  State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction. 

Sec.  12.  In  order  that  the  University  may  be  kept  "in  a 
condition  of  full  efficiency,"  as  required  by  the  terms  of  section 
sixteen  of  article  seven  of  the  Constitution  of  the  State  of  Wyo- 
ming, there  shall  be  assessed  upon  all  taxable  property  of  the 
State  in  each  year,  as  heretofore,  a  tax  of  one-eighth  of  a  mill 


LAWS  OF  1890-01.  57 

on  each  and  every  dollar  of  the  assessed  valuation  of  such 
properly,  which  tax  shall  be  levied,  collected  and  paid  to  the 
State  Treasurer  in  the  manner  provided  by  law  for  the  levy, 
collection  and  payment  of  other  State  taxes.  Said  tax,  when 
so  paid  to  the  State  Treasurer,  shall  be  paid  to  the  Treasurer 
of  the  said  Board  of  Trustees  upon  the  warrant  of  the  State 
Auditor,  to  be  issued  upon  request  of  said  Board  of  Trustees. 

Sec.  13.  "The  University  of  Wyoming"  having  been  des 
ignated  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  as  the  proper  institu- 
tion to  receive  and  expend  the  moneys  appropriated  by  an  act 
of  Congress,  approved  August  thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
ninety,  entitled,  "An  act  to  apply  a  portion  of  the  proceeds  of 
the  public  lands  to  the  more  complete  endowment  and  support 
of  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic 
arts,  established  under  the  provisions  of  an  act  of  Congress, 
approved  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,"  until 
such  time  as  there  may  be  an  agricultural  college  established 
in  this  State,  separate  and  apart  from  the  said  University  of 
Wyoming,  assent  is  hereby  given  to  all  the  terms  and  condi- 
tions of  said  act  of  Congress,  and  grants  of  money,  authorized 
and  made  by  said  act,  by  the  act  of  March  second,  eighteen 
hundred  and  eighty-seven,  relative  to  the  establishment  of 
agricultural  experiment  stations,  or  any  other  act  for  like  pur- 
poses, are  hereby  assented  to  and  accepted  by  the  State  of  Wyo^ 
ming.  Except  where  other  designation  is  made  by  Congress, 
all  moneys  granted  or  donated  by  Congress  in  aid  of  scientific 
instruction  or  experimentation,  and  set  apart  by  the  Legisla- 
ture for  such  use  by  the  University  of  Wyoming,  shall  be 
accepted  and  received  by  the  State  Treasurer,  and  by  him 
placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  said  Uni- 
versity by  transfer  to  the  Treasurer  of  said  Board,  for  dis- 
bursement in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the  act  or  acts 
of  Congress  aforesaid. 

Sec.  14.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  the 
provisions  of  this  act  are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  15.  This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from 
and  after  its  passage. 

Approved  January  10th,  1891. 


LAWS   OF  1803. 


CHAPTER     32. 

An  Act  prescribing  the  age  at  which  deaf  and  dumb  children 
may  be  admitted  as  pupils  in  the  Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb 
Asylum,  as  State  charges. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

Section  1.  That  deaf  and  dumb  children  of  the  age  of 
nine  years  and  over  shall  be  admitted  as  inmates  to  the  Blind 
and  Deaf  and  Dumb  Asylum  of  this  State,  when  the  same  shall 
be  opened  for  the  education  and  support  of  the  blind,  deaf  and 
dumb,  and  until  such  time  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  said  institution  or  the  State  Board  of  Charities  to 
provide  for  the  support,  maintenance  and  education  of  deaf  and 
dumb  children  of  the  age  of  nine  years  and  over,  in  such  asylum 
.ns  has  been  selected  for  the  support,  maintenance  and  education 
of  other  blind,  deaf  and  dumb  of  this  State,  as  provided  in 
chapter  15  of  the  Laws  of  Wyoming,  1890-91,  entitled,  "Blind, 
Deaf  and  Dumb." 

Sec.  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and 
after  its  passage. 

Approved  February  18,  1893. 


CHAPTER     10. 

REFUNDING  BONDS  IN   SCHOOL,   DISTRICTS. 

An  Act  providing  for  the  issuing  of  refunding  bonds  in  school 
districts. 

Tte  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

Section  1.  The  Board  of  Directors  of  each  and  every 
school  district  in  the  State  of  Wyoming,  are  hereby  authorized 
to  issue  refunding  bonds  of  such  school  district,  for  the  purpose 
of  taking  up  outstanding  bonds  of  such  school  district,  for  any 
sum  not  exceeding  the  amount  of  outstanding  bonds;  Provided, 
That  the  qualified  electors  of  any  such  school  district  shall  so 
elect  and  determine  at  any  regular  meeting  or  at  any  special 
meeting,  held  for  that  purpose. 


LAWS  OF  1893.  59 

Sec.  2.  Said  bonds  shall  be  issued  in  sums  of  not  less  than 
•one  hundred  dollars,  and  shall  be  redeemed  by  the  schol  district 
•issuing  the  same  within  a  period  not  exceeding  thirty  years, 
and  not  less  than  five  years  from  the  date  of  issue,  and  shall 
boar  interest  at  a  rate  not  exceeding  six  per  centum  per  annum 
on  each  dollar  of  their  face,  which  interest  shall  be  payable 
annually  or  semi-annually,  the  rate  of  interest  to  be  determined 
by  the  Board  of  Schol  Directors.  Such  bonds  shall  be  numbered 
from  one  upwards,  and  be  headed,  "Refunding  bonds  of  school 
district  number  -  -  in  the  county  of  -  — ,  State 

•of  Wyoming;'1  and  before  being  issued  shall  be  registered  by 
the  Treasurer  of  the  county  within  which  such  school  district 
is  situated. 

Sec.  3.  The  County  Treasurer  of  each  county  shall  keep 
a  book  in  which  shall  be  registered  all  such  bonds,  showing 
the  number  of  the  bond,  the  date  of  issue,  amount,  number  of 
r'.mpons,  date  of  redemprion,  date  of  registry  and  payment  of 
interest  on  such  bonds,  which  book  shall,  during  business 
liours,  be  open  for  inspection. 

Sec.  4.  All  bonds  issued  by  virtue  of  this  act  shall  be 
signed  by  the  presiding  officer  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  such 
school  district,  countersigned  by  the  County  Treasurer  of  the 
county  in  which  such  school  district  is  situated,  and  attested  by 
the  Clerk  of  such  school  district,  with  the  seal  of  such  school 
disli-ict  attached;  and  none  of  such  bonds  shall  be  sold  for  less 
th.-m  their  face  value,  and  shall  not  be  sold  until  thirty  days' 
notice  shall  have  been  given  in  some  newspaper  of  general  cir- 
culation in  the  State  of  Wyoming. 

Ser>.  5.  Said  bonds  shall  have  coupons  attached,  repre- 
senting the  interest  to  be  paid  each  year,  and  the  coupons  rep- 
resenting said  interest  shall  be  detached  from  the  bonds  before 
presentation  for  payment  of  the  interest  for  the  year  corre~ 
•sponging,  and  upon  payment  shall  be  forthwith  cancelled  by 
the  County  Treasurer,  by  writing  the  word  "cancelled"  across 
the  face  thereof.  The  interest  on  all  such  bonds  shall  be  pay- 
able at  the  office  of  the  County  Treasurer  of  the  county  in 
which  such  school  district  issuing  such  bonds  is  situated,  or  in 
any  place  designated  by  the  Board  of  School  Directors  of  such 
school  district. 

Sec.  ft.  There  shall  be  annually  levied  by  the  Board  of 
County  Commissioners  of  the  county  within  which  is  situate 
any  school  district  issuing  any  such  bonds,  as  are  in  this1  act 
provided  for,  on  all  taxable  property  within  the  limits  of  said 
school  district,  a  tax  not  to  exceed  seven  mills  on  the  dollar 
•of  valuation,  which  shall  be  known  as  the  Refunding  Bond 
Tund  of  school  district  No.  -  — .  Said  tax  shall  be  payable 


60  LAWS   OF  1893. 

only  in  the  lawful  money  of  the  United  States,  and  shall  be  used 
to  pay  the  interest  and  principal  of  said  bonds,  and  for  no 
other  purpose;  and  said  tax  shall  be  collected  in  the  same  man- 
ner and  at  the  same  time  as  the  county  taxes,  and  paid  into  the 
county  treasury  by  the  collector  of  taxes. 

Sec,  7.  The  Board  of  School  Directors  of  any  school  dis- 
irict,  which  may  issue  bonds  as  provided  in  this  act,  shall,  each 
year  after  the  tenth  year,  retire  as  many  of  such  bcn3s  as  can 
be  redeemed  with  the  amount  of  said  bond  fund  at  the  time  in 
the  hands  of  the  County  Treasurer,  and  in  all  such  cases  such 
bonds  shall  be  redeemed  by  the  payment  of  number  one  first, 
and  proceeding  continuously  upwards  with  those  outstanding.. 
All  cancelled  bonds  shall  be  turned  over  to  the  Board  of  Direct- 
ors at  such  times  as  they  may  direct. 

Sec.  8.  That  all  taxable  property  of  any  school  district,, 
issuing  bonds  as  herein  provided  for  at  the  time  of  issuing  such 
bonds,  shall  be  a  pledge  to  the  payment  of  the  principal  and  in- 
terest of  such  bonds  in  the  manner  herein  provided,  and  it  shall 
not  be  lawful  to  use  or  divert  any  portion  of  such  bond  fund 
for  any  purpose  whatever,  except  for  the  payment  of  said  prin- 
cipal and  interest,  and  as  provided  in  section  six  of  this  act. 

Sec  9.  The  County  Treasurer  of  each  county  in  which  any 
school  district,  issuing  bonds  as  herein  provided  for,  is  situated, 
shall  have  custody  of  all  funds  realized  from  the  sale  of  such 
bonds  and  shall  pay  the  same  out  only  upon  the  return  of  such 
bonds  for  the  redemption  of  which  the  refunding  bonds,  for 
the  issue  of  which  this  act  provides,  may  have  been  issued. 
Such  bonds  so  redeemed  shall  be  cancelled  by  the  County  Treas- 
urer and  turned  over  to  the  Board  of  School  Directors  of  the 
school  district  which  issued  said  redeemed  bonds,  at  such  time 
as  they  may  direct.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County  Treas- 
urer to  give  a  separate  bond  to  be  made  to  such  school  district, 
in  such  sum  and  with  such  sureties  as  the  Board  of  County 
Commissioners  of  the  county  may  deem  proper  and  sufficient, 
conditioned  for  the  faithful  accounting  of  the  moneys  deposited 
with  him  and  realized  from  the  sale  of  such  bonds  as  are  herein 
provided  for,  and  such  Treasurer's  separate  bond  shall  be  and 
remain  in  the  custody  of  the  County  Clerk  of  the  county  in 
which  such  sch,ool  district  is  situated. 

,     Sec.  10.     This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from 
and  after  its  passage. 

Approved  February  10,  1893. 


LAWS  OF  1895.  6 1 


CHAPTER     10. 

REFUNDING  BONDS  IN  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS. 

Aii  Act  supplemental  to  an  act  entitled,  "An  act  providing  for 
the  issuing  of  refunding  bonds  in  school  districts,"  passed 
by  the  Second  State  Legislature,  being  Chapter  10,  Ses- 
sion Laws  of  1893,  and  to  provide  for  any  surplus  funds 
realized  by  the  sale  of  bonds  authorized  by  said  act,  or 
reinairing  in  the  funds  provided  by  law  for  the  payment 
of  the  principal  and  interest  of  the  bonds  refunded  by 
the  authority  of  said  act. 

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Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

FUNDS   REALIZED    FROM    SALE    OF   BONDS— HOW   USED. 

Section  1.  That  whenever  any  school  district  shall  have 
issued  its  refunding  bonds  in  accordance  with  Chapter  10  of 
the  Session  Laws  of  the  Second  State  Legislature,  and  the 
1'unds  realized  from  the  sale  of  such  refunding  bonds  by  reason 
of  such  bonds  selling  for  more  than  their  par  value,  are  more 
1han  sufficient  to  redeem  all  the  bonds,  to  redeem  which  said 
refunding  bonds  were  issued,  such  surplus  may  be  used,  First: 
To  pay  all  the  expenses  of  issuing  and  disposing  of  said 
refunding  bonds.  Second:  Any  surplus  still  remaining  shall  be 
turned  by  the  county  treasurer  into  the  "Refunding  Bond 
Fund''  of  such  school  distiict  and  used  for  the  purposes  for 
which  such  fund  is  used  as  provided  in  Sec.  six  (6),  of  Chapter 
ten  (10),  of  the  Session  Laws  of  the  Second  State  Legislature. 

BALANCE     IN     THE     HANDS     OF     COUNTY     TREASURER— HOW 
USED. 

Sec.  2.  Whenever  any  school  district  shall  have  issued 
its  refunding  bonds  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of 
Ohapter  10  of  the  Session  Laws  of  the  Second  State  Legisla.- 
ture  and  there  remains  in  the  hands  of  the  county  treasurer 
of  the  county  in  which  said  school  district  is  situated  any* 
moneys  belonging  to  the  funds  provided  by  law  for  the  pay- 
ment of  the  principal  or  interest  or  both  of  the  bonds  tr  redeem 
which  said  refunding  bonds  were  issued,  said  money  may  be 
used,  First:  To  pay  any  deficiency  in  the  expenses  of  issuing 


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and  disposing  of  said  refunding  bonds  that  cannot  be  paid  by 
the  surplus  realized  from  the  sale  of  said  refunding  bonds  a» 
provided  for  in  Section  1  of  this  Act;  Second:  Any  moneys 
still  remaining  in  said  fund  shall  be  turned  by  said  county 
treasurer  into  the  "Refunding  Bond  Fund"  of  such  school 
district  and  used  for  the  purposes  for  which  such  fund  is  used, 
as  provided  in  Sec.  six  (6)  of  Chapter  (10)  of  the  Session 
Laws  of  the  Second  State  Legislature. 

SURPLUS— HOW   USED. 

Sec.  3.  The  county  treasurer  of  any  county  in  which  is 
situated  a  school  district  that  may  issue  its  refunding  bonds 
as  provided  in  said  Chapter  ten  (1 0)  of  the  Session  Laws  of  the 
Second  State  Legislature,  is  hereby  authorized  and  required 
to  pay  out  the  surplus  moneys  derived  from  the  sale  of  any 
such  refunding  bonds  referred  to  in  Section  1  of  this  Act,  or 
te  surplus  moneys  remaining  in  the  old  fund  referred  to  in 
Sec.  2  of  this  Act  for  the  expenses  incurred  by  such  school 
district  in  issuing  and  disposing  of  such  refunding  bonds  on 
orders  of  the  school  board  of  such  school  district,  which 
orders  shall  state  on  their  face  that  the  money  to  be  so  paid 
•was  a  legitimate  expense  incurred  in  the  issue  and  sale  of  such 
refunding  bonds.  When  all  of  such  expense  has  been  paid 
by  the  issue  of  such  orders  or  otherwise  the  board  of  directors 
shall  over  the  seal  of  said  district  notify  said  county  treasurer 
of  the  fact  that  all  the  expense  incurred  in  the  issue  and  sale 
of  such  refundin  bonds  has  been  paid  whereupon  said 
treasurer  shall  immediately  transfer  all  moneys  remaining 
in  his  hands  applicable  to  the  payment  of  interest  or  principal 
of  the  old  bonds  to  the  "Refunding  Bond  Fund"  of  such  school 
district,  as  provided  in  Sections  1  and  2  of  this  Act:  Provided, 
however,  That  all  the  bonds  to  redeem  which  said  refunding 
bonds  were  issued  have  already  been  paid. 

Sec.  4.  All  Acts  and  parts  of  Acts  in  conflict  with  or 
inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  Act  in  so  far  as  they 
so  conflict  are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  5.  This  Act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from 
and  after  its  passage. 

Approved  January  31,  A.  D.  1895. 


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CHAPTER     25. 

DEAF  AND   DUMB   CHILDREN. 

An  Act  prescribing  the  age  at  which  deaf  and  dumb  children 
may  be  admitted  as  pupils  in  the  Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb 
Asylum  as  State  charges. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

WHAT   CHILDREN   ADMITTED  TO   THE    STATE   INSTITUTIONS. 

.Section  1.  That  deaf  and  dumb  children  of  the  age  of 
six  years  and  over  shall  be  admitted  an  inmates  to  the  Blind, 
Deaf  and  Dumb  Asylum  of  this  State,  when  the  same  shall  be 
opened  for  the  education  and  support  of  the  blind,  deaf  and) 
dumb,  and  until  such  time  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  said  institution,  or  the  State  Board  of  Charities, 
to  provided  for  the  support,  maintenance  and  education  of 
deaf  and  dumb  children  of  the  age  of  six  years  and  over,  in  such 
asylum  as  has  been  selected  for  the  support,  maintenance  and 
education  of  other  blind,  deaf  and  dumb  of  this  State  as  pro- 
Tided  in  Chapter  15  of  the  Laws  of  Wyoming,  1890-91,  entitled, 
"Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb." 

Sec.  2.  This  Act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from 
and  after  its  passage. 

Approved  February  8,  A.  D.  1805. 


CHAPTER     34. 

STATE    BOARD    OF    CHARITIES    AND    REFORM. 

An  Act  to  amend  and  re-enact  Section  1  and  Section  8  of  an 
act  entitled,  "An  ret  creating  and  establishing  a  State 
Board  of  Charities  and  Reform,  and  prescribing  in  part 
their  duties,  and  to  repeal  all  acts  and  parts  of  acts  in- 
consistent herewith,"  approved  January  8,  1891. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

AMENDMENT. 

Section  1.     That   Section  1  of  an  act  entitled,  "An  act 


64  LAWS  OF  1895. 

creating  and  establishing  a  State  Board  of  Charities  and  He- 
form,  and  prescribing  in  part  their  duties,  and  to  repeal  all  acts 
and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  herewith,"  approved  January  8, 
1891,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  and  re  enacted  so  as 
to  read  as  follows:  "Section  1.  That  the  Governor,  the  Sec- 
retary of  State,  the  State  Treasurer,  the  State  Auditor  and  the 
State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall  constitute  and 
shall  hereafter  be  known  as  the  State  Board  of  Charities  and 
Reform." 

GOVERNOR  TO  BE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  BOARD. 

Sec.  2.  That  Sec.  8  of  said  act  be  and  the  same  is  hereby 
amended  and  re-enacted  so  as  to  read  as  follows:  "Sec.  8.  The 
Board  shall  meet  at  least  once  in  each  month,  on  the  first  Mon- 
day thereof,  for  the  transaction  of  business.  The  Governor 
shall  be  President  of  the  Board,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  sign 
all  papers  or  documents  that  shall  be  approved,  made  or  direct- 
ed by  the  Board.  Any  three  of  the  Board  shall  constitute  a 
quorum  for  the  transaction  of  any  or  all  business  at  any  regu- 
lar or  special  meeting,  and  the  Board  may  provide  for  a  Presi- 
dent pro  tern,  whose  powers  shall  be  defined  by  the  Board. 

REPEAL.  i 

Sec.  3.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  this 
act  are  hereby  repealed. 

WHEN  IN  FORCE. 

Sec.  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from, 
and  after  its  passage. 

Approved  February  13th,  A.  D.  1895. 


OF  1895.  65 


CHAPTER     44. 

DISTRIBUTION      OF      SCHOOL      MONEY—DUTIES      OF      COUNT  Y 
SUPERINTENDENT. 

Aii  .Vet  relating  to  the  duties  of  County  Superintendent  of 
Schools,  for  the  distribution  of  poll  tax  and  for  other  pur 
poses,  and  to  amend  and  re-enact  Chapter  sixty-seven  of 
the  Session  La\vs  of  Wyoming  for  the  year  one  thousand 
eight  hundred  and  eighty-eight,  entitled,  "An  act  to 
amend  Section  thirty-nine  hundred  and  fourteen  of  the 
Revised  Statutes  of  Wyoming,"  approved  March  ninth, 
1888. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

Section  1.  That  Section  one  of  Chapter  sixty-seven  of  the 
session  laws  of  Wyoming  for  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hun- 
dred and  eighty -eight,  entitled,  "An  Act  to  amend  Section 
three  thousand  nine  hundred  and  fourteen  of  the  Revised  Sta- 
tutes of  Wyoming,''  approved  March  ninth,  1888,  be  .and  the 
same  is  hereby  amended  and  re-enacted  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  1.  Section  three  thousand  nine  hundred  and  four- 
teen of  the  Revised  Statutes  of  Wyoming  is  hereby  amended 
and  re-enactod  to  read  as  follows: 

Sec.  o914.  The'  duties  of  the  county  superintendent  of 
schools  shall  be  as  follows:  He  shall  on  the  first  Monday  of 
October  in  each  year,  transmit  to  the  superintendent  of  public 
instruction  a.  report,  containing  an  abstract  of  the  several 
particulars  set  forth  in  tho  reports  of  the  district  clerks, 
together  with  a  statement  of  the  financial  affairs  of  his  office, 
and  such  suggestions  as  he  shall  think  proper,  relative  to  the 
schools  of  his  county;  he  shall  distribute  to  the  districts 
\viihin  Ms  county  such  blank  forms,  circulars  and  other  com- 
munications as  may  be  transmitted  to  him  for  that  purpose, 
by  the  superintendent  of  public  instruction;  on  the  first 
Monday  of  December,  annually,  he  shall  apportion  the  county 
school  tax  and  all  money  in  the  county  treasury,  belonging  to 
the  county  school  fund  in  the  following  manner:  Each  school 
district  in  his  county  shall  be  apportioned  the  sum  of  one 
hundred  and  fifty  dollars  for  the  payment  of  teachers  in  such 
district,  and  all  moneys  remaining  after  such  apportionment 
shall  be  apportioned  to  each  district  pro  rata,  according  to 
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LAWS  OF  189o. 

I 

the  number  of  pupils  in  attendance  at  the  schools  of  said  dis- 
trict, reported  to  him  by  the  several  district  clerks :  Provided, 
always,  That  each,  every  and  all  poll  taxes,  levied  and  collected 
for  school  purposes,  in  each  school  district  in  this  state,  shall 
vvhon  collected  by  the  county  treasurer,  be  paid  over  to  the 
treasurer  of  the  school  district  in  which  the  persons 
respectively  reside,  who  paid  such  poll  tax,  and  the  said  poll 
ta,xes  shall  not  be  divided  among  the  school  districts  of  the 
county  pro  rata  to  the  number  of  scholars  in  such  school  dis- 
trict, but  the  poll  taxes  so  collected  from  the  inhabitants  of 
each  school  district  shall  bo  paid  to  the  treasurer  of  the  district 
in  which  ihey  severally  reside,  for  the  support  of  the  schools 
of  such  district;  no  district  shall  be  entitled  to  the  amount  of 
one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  for  the  payment  of  teachers, 
besides  the  pro  rata  apportionment  as  provided  in  this  section, 
when  there  are  less  than  eight  scholars,  of  school  age,  in  said 
district;  he  shall  record  a  statement  of  such  apportionment 
in  his  office,  and  he  shall  also  notify  the  county  treasurer  of 
the  same;  he  shall  immediately  draw  an  order  on  the  county 
treasurer,  in  favor  of  the  treasurer  of  each  district  for  the  amount 
of  its  proportion,  and  transmit  the  same  to  the  treasurer  of 
the  district:  Provided,  Such  district  treasurer  shall  have 
givtn  his  official  bond,  which  draft  the  county  treasurer  shall 
pay  to  the  district  treasurer  on  presentation  of  the  draft 
properly  endorsed.  Should  no  apportionment  of  the  school 
funds  of  the  county  be  made  on  the  first  Monday  in  December, 
as  required  in  this  section  he  may  make  an  apportionment  a?? 
soon  thereafter  as  practicable,  in  the  same  manner  as  herein- 
before provided.  He  may  also  make  a  supplementary  appor- 
tionment of  the  money  in  the  county  school  fund  at  any  time 
after  the  first  Monday  in  December,  prior  to  the  first  of  the 
following  June,  and  such  supplementary  apportionment  shall 
be  pro  rata,  according  to  the  number  of  pupils  in  attendance 
in  any  and  all  schools  in  each  district,  as  reported  to  him  by 
the  several  district  clerks  .in  their  last  annual  reports.  He 
shall  divide  the  county  into  school  districts,  and  may  alter  and 
change  the  boundaries  of  districts  thus  formed,  from  time  to 
time  as  the  convenience  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  aforesaid 
district  may  require,  and  shall  proceed  to  make  such  change 
at  any  time,  when  petitioned  by  two-thirds  of  the  legal  voters 
of  any  district:  Provided  that  the  number  of  districts  in  any 
county  whose  population  is  less  than  ten  thousand,  shall  not 
exceed  twenty-five;  and  in  case  the  number  of  districts  in  any 
county  at  (he  passage  of  this  Act  exceeds  the  proportion  above 
stated,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  superintendent  of  such 


LAWS  OF  1895.  67 

county,  immediately  after  the  passage  of  this  Act  to  re-district 
such  county  in  accordance  herewith.  And  the  county  superin- 
tendent of  schools  shall  abolish  or  join  in  a  contiguous  district, 
any  school  district  in  which  no  school  has  been  maintained 
for  twelve  consecutive  months,  and  all  funds  to  the  credit  of 
such  district  so  abolished  or  joined  to  another  district,  shall 
be  returned  to,  and  become  a  part  of  the  general  school  fund 
of  the  county:  Provided,  that  nothing  in  this  Act  shall  be 
so  construed  as  to  prevent  the  county  superintendent  of  schools 
from  joining  any  school  district  (having  less  than  eight  pupils, 
to  any  other  school  district  lying  contiguous  thereto,  if,  in  the 
judgment  of  said  superintendent,  it  will  be  to  the  .benefit  of 
the  public  schools,  to  so  join  such  districts.  He  shall  examine 
every  person  offering  himself  or  herself  as  a  teacher  of  public 
schools,  and  if  in  his  opinion  such  person  is  qualified  to  teach 
a  public  school,  shall  give  him  or  her  a  certificate  authorizing 
him  or  her  to  teach  a  public  school  in  his  county  for  one  year. 
Whenever  practicable,  the  examinations  of  teachers  shall  be 
competitive  and  the  certificate  shall  be  granted  according  to 
the  qualifications  of  the  applicant.  He  shall  have  the  general 
superintendence  of  the  schools  of  his  county,  and  shall  visit  each 
school  at  ]past  once  each  term,  and  shall  have  power  to  dismiss 
all  teachers  he  may  find  to  be  incompetent. 

Sec.  2.  This  Act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from 
and  after  its  passage. 

Approved  February  15,  A.  D.  1895. 


CHAPTER     50. 

PUBLIC     KINDERGARTEN. 

An  Act  entitled,  An  act  giving  power  to  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  any  schoal  district  to  establish  and  maintain  the  kin- 
dergarten system  of  instruction  in  the  public  schools,  at 
which  children  between  the  ages  of  four  and  six  years 
may  receive  such  instruction. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

POWER  OF  TRUSTEES. 

Section  1.     The  board  of  trustees  of  any  school  district  in 
this  state  shall  have  power  to  establish  and  maintain  free 


68  LAWS  OF  1895. 

kindergarten  schools  in  connection  with  the  public 
schools  of  their  district,  for  the  instruction  of  children 
residing  in  such  district  and  be  tween  the  ages  of  four 
and  six  years,  and  shall  establish  such  courses  of  training, 
study  and  discipline  and  such  rules  and  regulations  for  the 
government  of  such  kindergarten  schools  as  said  board  mar 
deem  advisable;  Provided,  That  the  cost  of  establishing  and 
maintaining  such  kindergarten  schools  shall  be  paid  from  the 
special  school  fund  of  said  school  district,  and  the  gross  sum  to 
be  so  expended  by  the  said  board  for  such  kindergarten  schools 
shall  be  annually  fixed  and  determined  by  the  qualified  electors 
of  such  district  at  the  annual  meeting  of  such  electors. 

SHALL  BE  PART  OF  SCHOOL  SYSTEM— TEACHERS. 

The  said  kindergarten  schools  shall  be  a  part  of  the  public 
school  system  and  governed  as  far  as  practicable  in  the  same 
manner  and  by  the  same  officers  as  is  noAv  or  hereafter  may 
be  provided  by  law  for  the  government  of  the  other  public 
schools  of  the  state;  Provided,  however,  That  teachers  of  the 
kindergarten  schools  shall  be  the  holders  of  certificates  or 
diplomas  from  some  reputable  institution  for  the  training  of 
kindergarten  teachers,  and  shall  pass  such  other  examination, 
and  possess  such  other  qualifications  as  may  be  required  by 
the  board  of  trustees  of  the  district  employing  them. 

PRESENT  LAW  NOT  CHANGED  IN  REFERENCE  TO  APPORTION- 
MENT. 

And  Provided,  further.  That  nothing  in  this  Act  shall 
be  so  construed  as  to  in  any  manner  change  the  law,  as  it 
now  exists,  with  reference  to  the  taking  of  the  census  of  the 
school  population  or  the  apportionment  of  the  state  and  county 
school  funds  among  the  several  counties  and  districts  in  this 
state. 

HOW   CARRIED  INTO  EFFECT. 

Sec.  2.  That  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  into  effect  the 
provisions  of  the  foregoing  section,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the 
qualified  electors  of  any  school  district  in  the  state  at  the 
annual  meeting  held  under  the  provisions  of  existing  law  to 
vote  such  sum  of  money  as  may  be  necessary  to  establish  and 
maintain  such  kindergarten  schools,  during  the  school  year 
next  following  such  meeting  such  sum  in  the  aggregate,  not 
to  exceed  one  mill  upon  the  dollar  of  the  valuation  of  the 
property  in  the  district  as  determined  by  the  next  preceding 


LAWS  OP  1895.  69 

annual  assessment  thereof  for  the  purpose  cf  taxation,  the 
same  to  be  certified,  levied,  collected  and  disbursed  in  the 
same  manner  as  is  now  provided  by  law  with,  respect  to  the 
special  school  funds  of  the  several  school  districts  in  this  state. 

WHEN  ACT  TAKES  EFFECT. 

Sec.  3.     This  Act  shall  be  in  force  and  effect  from  and  after 
its  passage. 

Approved  February  15,  A.  D.  1805. 


CHAPTER     53. 

DISTRIBUTION    OF    SCHOOL    FUNDS. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  the  distribution  of  the  income  derived 
from  the  investment  of  the  permanent  school  funds  and 
from  the  leasing  of  State  school  lands.  z 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

REFERENCE  TO  LAST  PRECEDING  REPORTS  OF  COUNT  T 
SUPERINTENDENTS. 

Section  1.  On  or  before  the  thirty-first  day  of  M'arch  in 
each  year,  if  there  shall  be  any  money  to  the  credit  of  the 
income  fund,  for  the  use  of  pubilc  schools  in  the  state  treasury, 
including  the  rents  of  the  unsold  school  lands,  the  state  super- 
intendent of  public  instruction  shall  distribute  such  income 
among  the  several  counties  of  the  state  accordng  to  the  num- 
ber of  children,  of  school  age  in  each,  the  same  to  be  deter- 
mined by  reference  to  the  last  preceding  annual  reports  fur- 
n.bhed  to  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction  by  the 
several  county  superintendents  of  schools.  Such  moneys  so  dis- 
tributed &hall  be  paid  to  the  county  treasurer  of  each  county 
by  the  state  treasurer,  upon  the  requisition  to  that  effect  by 
the  state  superintendent  of  public"  instruction,  which  said 
requisition  shall  state  the  county  entitled  thereto,  together 
wiih  the  amount,  and  the  fund  out  of  which  it  is  to  be  paid; 
and  the  superintendent  of  public  instrupction  shall  at  the  same 
liji.e  notify  each  superintendent  of  schools  that  such  distri- 
bution has  been  made;  such  requisition  shall  be  accompanied 
b\  a  warrant  of  the  auditor  upon  the  treasurer  covering  the 


70  LAWS  OF  1805. 

amount  of  the  requisition  in  each  case,  and  the  superintendent 
«;f  public  instruction  shall  file  such  requisition  with  the  auditor 
and  a  copy  of  the  same  with  the  treasurer.  Upon  such  distri- 
bution being  made  and  said  money  being  paid  to  the  respective 
county  treasurers,  the  county  superintendent  of  schools  in1 
each  county  shall  cause  such  money  to  be  distributed  among 
the  several  school  districts  in  the  county  pro  rata  in  the  same 
manner  and  in  the  same  proportion  as  the  regular  county  school 
tax  is  required  by  law  to  be  distributed.  Provided,  however  that 
any  law  with  reference  to  the  distribution  of  the  county  school 
tax  which  provides  for  a  certain  amount  to  be  paid  to  each 
school  district  before  the  pro  rata  distribution  of  the  balance 
is  made  shall  not  apply  in  the  case  of  the  distribution  of  the 
said  moneys  under  this  Act.  Provided,  further,  that  no 
apportionment  from  said  state  fund  shall  be  made  to  any 
school  district  for  a  year  in  which  a  school  has  not  been  main- 
tained therein  for  at  least  three  months. 

Sec.  2.  This  Act  shall  take  eifect  and  be  in  force  from 
and  after  January  1,  1896. 

Approved  February  16,  A.  D.  1895. 


CHAPTEE     67. 

INVESTMENT  OP  LAND  FUNDS. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  the  investment  of  the  permanent  funds 
arising  from  the  sale  of  State  lands. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

APPROVAL   OF    GOVERNOR   AND   ATTORNEY   GENERAL. 

Section  1.  All  permanent  funds  arising  from  the  sale  of 
State  lands  and  airy  permanent  addition  thereto  may,  and 
whenever  practicable,  shall  be  invested  by  the  Treasurer  of 
the  State,  with  the  approval  of  the  Governor  and  Attorney  Gen- 
eral, in  bonds  of  the  United  States  or  of  the  State  of  Wyoming, 
or  in  bonds  issued  by  school  districts  within  this  State,  or  reg- 
istered county  bonds  of  the  State,  or  interest  bearing  warrants 
of  this  State.  The  interest  only  shall  be  used  for  the  purpose 
for  which  the  grant  of  lands  was  made. 


LAWS  OF  1895.  71 

REPEAL. 

See.  2.     Section  forty  of  chapter  seventy-nine  of  the  Laws 
of  1890-01  is  hereby  repealed. 

Approved  February  10th,  A,  D.  1805. 


CHAPTER     7G. 

COMPENSATION   AND   FEES   OF   COUNTY    OFFICERS. 

***** 
SUPERINTENDENTS   OF    SCHOOLS. 

Sec.  G.  County  Superintendents  of  Schools  shall  receive 
the  following  annual  salaries: 

In  counties  of  the  first  class,  six  hundred  dollars;  in  coun- 
ties of  the  second  class,  five  hundred  dollars;  in  counties  of  the 
third  class,  four  hundred  dollars;  and  in  counties  of  the  fourth 
class,  three  hundred  dollars. 

***** 

HOW  PAID. 

Sec.  20.  The  salaries  of  county  and  precinct  officers  as 
provided  for  in  this  act  shall  be  paid  in  equal  monthly  install- 
ments, by  the  county  in  which  they  serve,  and  shall  be  allowed 
at  the  first  regular  monthly  meeting  of  the  Board  of  County 
Commissioners  occurring  after  the  rendition  of  such  service; 
Provided,  That  in  counties  of  the  third  and  fourth  classes  the 
salaries  of  the  county  and  precinct  officers  may  be  paid  quar- 
terly. 

***** 

IN   FORCE. 

Sec.  25.  This  act  shall  take  eifect  and  be  in  force  from 
and  after  its  passage,  but  the  same  shall  not  affect  the  salary 
or  fees  of  any  county  or  precinct  officer  heretofore  elected  or 
appointed,  during  his  continuance  in  office,  pursuant  to  such 
election  or  appointment. 

Approved  February  16th,  A.  D.  1805. 


72  LAWS    OF    189o. 


CHAPTER     82. 

STATE   BOARD   OF   CHARITIES   AND    REFORM. 

An  Act  amending  and  supplementing  an  act,  approved  Janu- 
ary 8,  1801,  entitled,  "An  act  creating  and  establishing  a 
State  Board- of  Charities  and  Reform,  and  prescribing  in 
part  their  duties,  and  repealing  all  acts  and  parts  of  acts 
inconsistent  therewith.'' 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

STATE     ISNTITUTIONS     CONTROLLED    BY    STATE      BOARD      OF 
CHARITIES  AND  REFORM. 

Section  1.  Sub-division  two,  of  section  two,  of  the  act 
above  named,  is  hereby  amended  and  re-enacted  so  as  to  read  as 
follows: 

II. 

General  supervision  and  control  of  all  buildings  and  insti- 
tutions belonging  to  or  used  by  the  State  for  charitable,  penal 
or  reformatory  purposes,  including  the  State  Insane  Asylum 
at  Evanstori,  in  the  County  of  Uinta;  the  State  Penitentiary 
located  in  the  town  of  Rawlins,  in  the  County  of  Carbon;  the 
Penitentiary  located  at  the  town  of  Laramie,  in  the  County  of 
Albany;  the  Deaf,  Dumb  and  Blind  Institute  or  Asylum  located 
at  Cheyenne,  in  the  County  of  Laramie;  the  Wyoming  General 
Hospital  located  at  Rock  Springs  in  the  County  of  Sweetwater, 
and  the  Wyoming  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home;  but  excepting 
the  poor  fann  located  at  Lander,  in  the  County  of  Fremont. 

EXCEPTION— ANNUAL   REPORT. 

Sec.  2.  It  shall  be  1he  duty  of  the  State  Board  of  Chari- 
ties and  Reform  to  include  in  their  annual  report  to  the  Gov- 
ernor, an  itemized  account  of  all  expenditures  made  during  the 
current  year  for  the  institutions  under  the  supervision  of  such 
Board,  making  a  complete  and  separate  statement  of  the  ex- 
penditures made  for  each  of  such  institutions,  according  to  the 
appropriation  made,  so  that  the  cost  of  the  support  and  main- 
tenance of  the  same  may  be  easily  ascertained.  They  shall  also 
include  in  their  report  in  each  even  numbered  year  an  itemized 
estimate  of  the  amount  deemed  necessary  by  the  Board  to  be 
appropriated  for  the  support  and  maintenance  of  each  of  the 


LAWS   OP  1895.  73 

institutions  under  its  supervision  for  the  ensuing  two  years, 
which  estimate  shall  be  made  and  itemized  according  to  the 
appropriations  made  for  the  two  preceding  years,  so  that  it  may 
readily  be  compared  with  the  expenditures  and  appropriations 
for  those  years. 

SEPARATE  APPROPRIATIONS. 

Sec.  <J.  All  appropriations  hereafter  made  for  the  support 
and  maintenance  of  the  several  penal,  charitable  and  reforma- 
tory institutions  under  the  supervision  of  the  State  Board  of 
Charities  and  Reform  shall  state  separately  the  amount  appro- 
priated for  each  institution;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
State  Auditor  to  keep  a  separate  account  of  each  appropriation 
for  the  institutions,  and  all  expenditures  in  connection  there- 
with. 

Sec.  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from 
and  after  its  passage. 

Approved  February  16th,  A.  D.  1895. 


CHAPTER     88. 

INDUSTRIAL  AND    MANUAL    TRAINING   SCHOOL. 

An  Act  permitting  the  School  Boards  to  establish  Industrial 
or  Manual   Training   Schools. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

SCHOOL  BOARD  MAY  ESTABLISH  MANUAL  TRAINING  SCHOOLS. 

Section  j.  That  the  school  board  of  any  district  in  the 
state  shall  hfive  power  to  establish  and  locate  industrial  and 
manual  training  ei-hools,  in  connection  with  the  public  schools 
of  said  district. 

Sec.  2.  This  Act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  it* 
passage. 

Approved  February  18,  A.  D.  1895. 


74  LAWS   OF  1895. 

CHAPTER     102. 

TAXATION— AMENDMENT. 

An  Act  to  amend  and  re-enact  Sections  3768,  of  the  Revised 
Statutes  of  Wyoming,  relating  to  taxation. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

AMENDMENT. 

Section  1.  That  section  three  thousand  seven  hundred 
;and  sixty-  eight,  of  the  Revised  Statutes  of  Wyoming,  be,  and 
the  same  is  hereby  amended  and  re-enacted  so  as  to  read  as 
follows: 

ANNUAL,  LEVY. 

'Section  3768.  There  shall  be  levied  and  assessed  upon 
the  taxable  real  and  personal  property,  within  this  State  in 
each  year,  the  following  taxes: 

STATE    REVENUE. 

First — For  State  revenue,  four  mills  on  the  dollar  when 
no  rale  is  directed  by  the  State  Board  of  Equalization  before 
the  date  in  each  year  when  the  tax  ought  to  be  levied  and 
assessed,  but  in  no  case  shall  the  tax  for  State  revenue  pur- 
poses exceed  four  mills  on  the  dollar;  except  for  the  support 
of  State  educational  and  charitable  institutions,  the  payment 
of  the  State  debt  and  the  interest  thereon. 

-COUNTY  REVENUE. 

Second — The  County  Commissioners  shall  annually  levy 
a  tax  for  the  suport  of  the  common  schools  in  their  county, 
not  to  exceed  three  mills  on  the  dollar.  For  county  revenue 
for  all  purposes  there  shall  be  levied  annually  a  tax,  but  the 
aggregate  tax  for  county  revenue,  including  general  school 
tax,  shall  not  exceed  twelve  mills  on  the  dollar,  exclusive  of 
State  revenue,  except  for  the  payment  of  its  public  debt  and 
the  interest  thereon.  An  additional  tax  of  two  dollars  for  each 
person  between  the  ages  of  twenty-one  and  fifty  years,  inclus- 
ive, shall  be  annually  levied  for  county  school  purposes;  Pro- 
Tided,  always,  That  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  in 


LAWS   OF   1895.  75 

each  and  every  county  of  this  State  shall  not  expend  in  any 
one  year,  from  out  of  the  revenue  so  raised,  for  the  support 
of  the  poor  and  lunatic  purposes,  a  sum  amounting  to  more 
than  two  mills  on  the  dollar  of  each  and  every  dollar  of  the 
assessed  valuation  of  the  property  within  their  county  for  the 
then  current  year;  for  road  purposes,  a  sum  not  amounting  to 
more  than  three  mills  on  the  dollar  of  each  and  every  dollar 
of  assessed  valuation  of  the  property  within  their  county  for 
the  then  current  year." 

REPEAL 

Sec.  2.    All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  in  conflict  herewith, 
are  hereby  repealed. 

WHEN  ACT  TAKES  EFFECT. 

Sec.  3.     This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from 
:and  after  its  passage. 

Approved  February  20th,  A.  D.  1805. 


CHAPTER    103. 

INSANE  CRIMINALS. 

An  Act  providing  for  the  custody  and  treatment  of  persons 
of  unsound  mind  who  have  been  accused  or  convicted  of 
criminal  offenses. 

Be  it  enacted  by  tlie  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

•CONVICTS. 

Section  1.  The  State  Board  of  Charities  and  Reform 
shall  make  provision  for  the  care,  custody  and  treatment  of  all 
persons  of  unsound  mind  who  are  accused  of,  or  convicted  of 
any  crime,  misdemeanor,  or  offense  against  the  laws  of  this 
State,  or  the  laws  of  the  late  Territory  of  Wyoming,  either  in 
the  State  Asylum,  or  Hospital  for  the  Insane  at  Evanston,  or 
at  a  proper  institution  elsewhere  within  or  without  this  State, 
after  any  such  person  of  unsound  mind  shall  be  declared  insane 
after  inquiry,  trial  and  determination  as  provided  by  law  in 
the  case  of  other  persons  of  unsound  mind. 


LAWS    OF   1805. 
RULES  AND  REGULATIONS. 

Sec.  2.  The  said  Board  shall  be  empowered  to  make  such 
contracts,  orders,  rules  and  regulations  as  shall  carry  into 
effect  the  provisions  of  this  act  as  they  may  deem  proper  for 
the  care,  custody  and  treatment  of  the  persons  of  unsound 
mind  mentioned  in  this  act, 

COMPLAINT. 

Sec.  3.  If  any  person  accused  of  or  convicted  of  any 
crime,  misdemeanor,  or  offense  against  the  laws  of  this  State 
or  against  the  laws  of  the  late  Territory  of  Wyoming,  shall 
be  confined  in  any  penitentiary,  county  jail  of  any  county,  or 
other  place  of  confinement,  awaiting  trial,  or  who  is  confined 
therein  under  and  pursuant  to  the  sentence  or  judgment  of 
any  court  or  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  this  State,  who  is  of  un- 
sound mind,  any  officer  or  person  having  such  person  of  un- 
sound mind  in  his  charge  shall,  and  any  citizen  of  this  State 
may,  make  complaint  thereof,  and  the  question  of  the  sanity 
of  such  person  shall  be  inquired  of,  tried  and  determined  under 
and  according  to  the  law  of  this  State  providing  for  and  reg- 
ulating trials,  inquisitions  and  proceeding  in  cases  of  inquiiy 
into  the  sanity  of  other  persons  of  unsound  mind. 

TRIAL  OF  PERSONS  OF  UNSOUND  MIND  ACCUSED  OR  CON- 
VICTED OF  CRIME— BOARD  OF  CHARITIES  AND  REFORM 
SHALL  TAKE  CHARGE. 

Sec.  4.  If  any  such  person  accused  of  or  convicted  of  any 
crime,  misdemeanor  or  offense  shall  be  found  of  unsound  mind 
or  insane  upon  such  inquiry,  trial  or  proceeding,  he  or  she  shall 
be  forthwith  taken  to  such  place  or  places  for  treatment  as 
shall  be  provided  for  or  prescribed  by  the  State  Board  of 
Charities  and  Bf  form,  either  generally,  or  for  that  particular 
case,  and  it,  shall  be  the  duty  of  any  and  all  persons,  boards, 
superintendents,  officers  and  employes  of  the  place  so  desig- 
nated by  such  Board  to  receive  the  same  person  into  custody 
o.nd  to  treat  him  or  her  according  to  the  regulations  and 
practice  of  such  place  or  institution. 

DISPOSITION  OF   PERSON   UPON   RECOVERY   OF  REASON. 

Sec.  5.  If  any  such  person  or  patient  so  confined  in  any 
hospital  or  asylum  or  place  designated  by  the  said  Board  of 
Charities  and  Beform  shall  recover  his  or  her  reason,  he  or 
she  shall  be  returned  to  the  Penitentiary,  county  jail  or  other 
place  of  confinement  or  imprisonment  where  such  person  was 
confined  at  the  time  of  such  inquiry,  trial  or  proceeding  to 


LAWS   OF   1895.  77 

•determine  his  sanity  or  insanity,  there  to  be  tried  or  to  serve 
out  or  undergo  his  other  term  of  imprisonment  if  any  part 
thereof  remains,  as  the  nature  of  the  case  shall  require. 

•COSTS. 

Sec.  6.  The  cost  of  the  custody,  maintenance,  and  treat- 
ment of  the  persons  mentioned  in  this  act  at  any  asylum,  hos- 
pital or  place  for  the  treatment  and  care  of  the  insane  shall 
be  borne  by  this  State,  and  the  Board  of  Charities  and  Reform 
shall  audit,  the  Auditor  shall  draw  his  warrant  therefor  and 
the  Treasurer  shall  pay  the  same  in  the  manner  provided  by 
law  for  the  auditing  and  payment  of  the  expenses  of  other 
pauper  insane. 

WHEN  ACT  TAKES  EFFECT. 

Sec.  7.     This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 
Approved  February  20th,  A.  D.  1895. 


CHAPTER     109. 

REGULATION    OF    EXPENDITURES    FOR    AGRICULTURAL    COL- 
LEGE. 

An  Act  regulating  the  appropriation,  use  and  expenditure  of 
the  moneys  received  under  an  act  of  Congress  approved 
March  2,  1887,  entitled,  "An  act  to  establish  agricultural 
experiment  stations  in  connection  with  the  colleges  estajb- 
lished  in  the  several  States  under  the  provisions  of  an  act 
approved  July  2,  1862,  and  of  the  acts  supplementary 
thereto.'' 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

Section  1.  The  moneys  received  under  an  act  of  Con- 
gress, approved  March  2,  1887,  entitled,  "An  act  to  establish 
agricultural  experiment  stations  in  connection  with  the  col- 
leges established  in  the  several  States  under  the  provisions 
of  an  act  approved  July  2,  1862,  and  of  the  acts  supplement- 
ary thereto,'-  shall  be  appropriated,  used  and  expended  pur- 
suant to  the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  not  otherwise. 


7  LAWS    OP   1895. 

APPROPRIATION,    HOW   EXPENDED. 

Sec.  2.  The  Trustees  of  the  University  or  College  at  Lar- 
aniie,  Wyoming,  in  connection  with  which  such  experimental 
station  is  established  shall  annually,  by  resolution,  specific- 
ally appropriate  and  designate  the  uses  to  which  such  money 
shall  be  applied  and  the  purposes  for  which  the  same  shall  be 
(xpended.  Such  uses  and  purposes  at  all  times  to  be  within 
the  use  and  purpose  for  which  such  money  is  donated  under 
the  acts  of  Congress  regulating  the  same,  and  no  part  of  such 
money  shall  be  used  or  expended  in  any  manner  or  for  any 
purpose  not  covered  by  such  appropriation,  and  no  indebted- 
ness shall  be  contracted  or  expenditure  made  in  excess  of  such 
appropriation. 

TREASURER. 

Sec.  3.  The  Treasurer  of  the  University  or  College  in 
connection  with  which  such  experimental  station  is  estab- 
lished shall  annually,  on  or  before  the  31st  day  of  December 
submit  to  the  Governor  a  printed  report  setting  forth  the 
appropriation  resolution  for  that  year  and  containing  an  item- 
ized statement  of  the  receipt  and  disbursement  of  such  money, 
showing  clearly  the  purposes  for  which  the  same  has  been 
expended  and  the  amount  thereof  expended  upon  each  experi- 
mental station.  One  hundred  copies  of  such  printed  report 
shall  be  filed  with  the  Secretary  of  State  for  distribution 
among  the  members  of  the  Legislature  and  other  public  offi- 
cers. 

WHEN  ACT  SHALL  TAKE  EFFECT. 

Sec.  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from 
and  after  its  passage 

Approved  February  21st,  A.  D.  1895. 


LAWS    OF    1805.  79. 


CHAPTER     110. 

APPROPRIATIONS    FOR   UNIVERSITY. 

An  Act  concerning  appropriations  for  the  support  and  main- 
tenance of  the  University  of  Wyoming  and  requiring  an 
annual  accounting  of  the  expenditure  of  the  same. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming: 

LEGISLATURE   SHALL  MAKE  APPROPRIATION. 

Section  1.  Hereafter  there  shall  be  appropriations  made 
by  the  Legislature  of  the  moneys  intended  for  the  support  and 
maintenance  of  the  University  of  Wyoming,  and  such  appro- 
priations shall  specify  as  nearly  and  accurately  as  the  same 
can  be  done  the  specific  purposes  for  which  such  moneys  are 
intended  and  may  be  used.  Such  appropriations  shall  apply 
to  and  include  all  moneys  received  by  the  University  from  the 
United  States  for  the  endowment  and  support  of  colleges  for 
the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  mechanic  arts,  but  moneys  so 
received  from  the  United  States  shall  be  appropriated,  applied 
ond  used  solely  for  the  purpose  specified  in  the  acts  of  Con- 
gress regulating  the  same.  No  expenditure  shall  be  made  in 
excess  of  such  appropriation  and  no  moneys  so  appropriated 
shall  be  used  for  any  purpose  other  than  that  for  which  they 
are  appropriated. 

TREASURER. 

Sec.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  Uni- 
versity, immediately  after  the  close  of  each  current  year,  to 
submit  to  the  Governor  a  printed  report  containing  an  item- 
ized account  of  all  moneys  received  for  the  support  and  main- 
tenance of  the  University  for  that  year,  and  of  all  expendi- 
1  ures  made  therefrom ;  and  he  shall  at  the  same  time  file  in  the 
office  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  for  distribution  among  the 
members  of  the  Legislature  and  other  public  officers,  one 
hundred  copies  of  such  report. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  shall  taake  effect  and  be  in  force  from 
and  after  its  passage. 

Approved  February  21st,  A.  D.  1895. 


INDEX. 


INDEX.  83 


INDEX. 


Agricultural  College,  regulation  of  expenditures 77 

Appeal  from  Superintendent  of  Schools  on  formation  of  district 20 

Annual  election  of  district  officers 24 

Authority  of  District  Board  to  admit  or  remove  scholars 25 

Authority  of  County  Superintendent,  supervisory  and  appellate 18 

Advertising  by  District  Board  before  making  contracts 25 

Auditing  and  pay  in  g  demands  by  District  Boards 26 

Authority  of  police  officers 28 

Actions  at  law,  Director  to  appear  in  behalf  of  district  in 29 

Annual  report  to  County  Superintendent 30 

Assessor's  duty  as  to  district  taxes 32 

Assessment  and  levy  of  taxes,  equalization  of 33 

Authority  to  call  bond  election,  general  law 38 

Age',  school 28 

Age,  deaf  and  dumb  children  admitted  to  asylum 58,  63 

Additional  bond,  County  Treasurer 41 

Adoption  and  use  of  text  books 43 

Application  by  the  surety  of  School  'District  Treasurer 46 

Appropriation  for  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,  expenses  confined  to.  ...  49 

Assessor  to  report  annually,  deaf  and  blind  persons  in  county ...  49 

Annual  report  of  President  of  Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute.. .....  51 

Amended  laws 52 

Apportionment  of  school  funds .  66 

B. 

Board  of  Land  Commissioners,  school  lands 9 

Books,  disposition  of  those  donated 16 

Body  corporate,  the  school  district  to  be  a .21 


64  INDEX. 

PAGE 

Board  of  Directors  and  County  Superintendent  may  establish  high 

schools 27 

Bonds,  refunding 01,  58 

Bonds,  general  act,  providing  for 38 

Bonds,  election  to  determine  upon  issue  of 38 

Bonds,  funds  realized  from  sale,  how  used 01 

Bonds,  balance  in  hands  County  Treasurer 01 

Bonds,  surplus,  how  used '.....  02 

Bonds,  sale  of  and  application  of^  proceeds 39 

Bonds,  pledge  for  payment  of 39 

Bonds,  tax  levy  to  redeem  and  pay  interest  on 39 

Bonds,  redemption  of 40 

Bonds,  pa>  ment  of  interest  on 40 

Bonds,  preparation'  of 40 

Bonds,  additional  bond  of  County  Treasurer,  on  account  of 41 

Bonds,  certificate  of  Clerk  of  school  district  on 47 

Books,  text,  adoption  of 43 

Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute, 58,  52,  49,  47 

Blind,  Deaf  and  'Dumb  Institute,  creation  of— limitation 47 

Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,  Board  of  Trustees 48 

Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,  organization  of  Board 48 

Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,  oath  of  Trustees 48 

Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,  duties  of  President  and  Secretary.. ..  48 

Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,  powers  of  Trustees 48 

Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,  expenses  to  be  confined  to  appropri- 
ation   49 

Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,   payment  of  expenses— Compensa- 
tion of  Trustees 49 

Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,  inmates,  not  residents  of  the  State.  49 

Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,  who  admitted 49 

Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,  pupils  to  be  properly  clothed 50 

Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,  officers,  and  their  duties 50 

Blind,  Deaf  and  'Dumb  Institute,  matron,  duties  of 51 

Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,  President  to  make  annual  report  to 

Governor 51 

Blind,  deaf  and  dumb,  provisions  for  temporary  care  of .'....  51 

Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute,  transferred  to  control  of  Board  of 

Charities  and  Reform T>2 

C. 

College,  Agricultural 77 

Charities  and  Reform,  Board  of 72,  63,  52 

Charities  and  Reform,  Governor  to  be  President  of  Board 64 

Charities   and   Reform,   separate   appropriations 73 

Commissioners,  Board  of  Land 9 

County  levy,   limited 11 

County   Superintendent 65,  17 


INDEX.  65 

PAGE 

County  Superintendent,  enumeration  of  duties  and  powers 65,  17 

County  Superintendent,  failure  to  make  report — penalty 18 

County     Superintendent,    may    grant   teachers'     certificates   for   two 

years,  renewals 18 

County  Superintendent,  supervisory  and  appellate  power 18 

County  Superintendent,  compensation 71 

Criminals,   intane 75 

Committee,  visiting-,  shall  be  appointed  by  District  Board 26 

Colored  children,  separate  school  for,  may  be  provided 27 

Compulsory  education. 28 

Countersign  orders  on  treasury,  'Director  of  District  Board  shall 29 

Clerk  of  District  Board 30 

Clerk  of  District  Board,  duties  of 30 

Clerk  of  District  Board,  shall  keep  accounts 30 

Clerk  of  District  Board,  shall  give  notice  of  district  meetings 30 

Clerk  of  District.  Board,  annual  report  to  County  Superintendent...  .  30 

Clerk  of  District  Board,  failure  to  make  report— penalty 31 

'Duty  of  Clerk  and  Assessor  as  to  district  taxes 32 

Certificate  of  Clerk  on  school  district  bonds 47 

County  Commissioners  to  equalize  assessment  and  levy  of  taxes 32 

Collection  of  taxes,  manner  of 33 

Counsel,    employment   of 36 

Collection,  and  disposition  of  fines 36 

County  boundaries,  change  of  relating  to  school  districts 36 

Cancellation  of  paid  school  bonds,  and  redemption 40 

County  Clerk  to  distribute  Revised  Statutes 44 

Compensation,  county  officers 71 

Convicts „  .  . .  75 

D. 

Drafts  and  orders,  how  drawn 29 

Directors  to  preside  at  meeting 29 

Directors,  appear  in  actions  at  law 29 

Directors,   oath    of 21 

Directors,   shall  qualify 25 

Directors,  meetings  of 25 

Directors,  powers  and  duties 2~5 

Directors,  shall  advertise  before  contracting 25 

Directors,  shall  make  settlement  with  Treasurers 25 

Directors,  shall  appoint  visiting  committee 26 

'Directors,  shall  report  at  each  regular  meeting 26 

Directors,  shall  audit  and  allow  just  claims 26 

Directors,   shall  call  special  meetings 26 

Directors,  in  case  of  vacancy,  how  filled 26 

District,   electors  of 20 

District  meeting,  order  of  business 23 

District  meeting,  powers  of 22 


INDEX. 

I'AGE 

District  meeting,  notice  of 20 

District  taxes,  duties  of  Clerk  and  Assessor  as  to 32 

District  bonds.     See  "bonds" 

District,  notice  of  formation  of  new 19 

District,  formation  of  new GO 

District,  appeal  from  Superintendent  on  formation  of  new 19 

Debt  limit,  certificate  of  Clerk  as  to 12 

Deaf,  dumb  and  blind 63,  49,  47 

Donations  to  individuals  by  school  district  prohibited 12 

E. 

Electors  of  school  district 20 

Election  of  Trustees 20 

Equalization  of  assessment  and  levy  of  taxes 33 

Examination  of  teachers 18 

Election  to  determine  upon  issue  of  bonds 3S 

Education,  compulsory 28 

F. 

Fees,   Treasurer's,   (repealed  by  Art.   XIV  of  Constitution  and   laws 

1890-91,  ch.  55) 41 

Funds,  teachers 31 

Funds,  perpetual  for  schools,  designated : 6 

Funds,  school  house 32 

Funds,   tra refer  of  school 23 

Funds,  from  sale  of  bonds,  distribution  of 39 

Funds,  school,  restriction  on  investment  of 7 

Funds,  school,  apportionment  of 66 

Fines  go  to  school  fund 7 

G. 

Governor,  Secretary  of  State  and  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruc- 
tion designated  as  Board  of  Land  Commissioners,  having  con- 
trol of  school  and  other  lands 9 

H. 

High  schools,  establishment  of 27 

Hygiene  and  physiology  shall  be  taught 34 

Holidays,  legal..                                                                                                      ,  46 


Insane,   criminals 75 

Industrial  and  manual  training  school 73 


INDEX.  87 

PAGE 

Interest  coupons,  school  bo  nds 40 

Interest,  tax  levy  to  pay , 40 

Interest,  payment  of 40 

Institute,  County  Teachers' 43 

Institute  for  blind,  deaf  and  dumb 47 

Income,   application  of 7 

Income,    distribution   of 7 

K. 

Kindergarten,  public 67 

L. 

Land,  public  and  donations.  , 12,  13 

Lands,  application  of  proceeds 13 

Lands,  unexpended  proceeds 14 

Lands,    irnestment   of  funds 70 

Lands,   Agricultural    College 4 

Lands,  granted  for  school  purposes 3,  4 

Lands,   mineral,    excepted  from   grants 5 

Lands,  for  University 9 

Land   Commissioners,    Board   of 8 

Lands,  selection  of 5 

Lease  of  University  lands 9 

Levy,   State  and  County,   limited 11 

Levy  for  school  purposes 22 

Levy  to  redeem  bonds  and  pay  interest 40 

Liability  of  parents  -or  guardians 28 

Leg-al  holidays 46 

Librarian,  State,  distribution  Revised  Statutes 44 

Laws  of  Territory  made  laws  of  State 52 

M. 

Money,  penalty  for  failure  to  pay  over 36 

Money,  public  not  to  be  source  of  profit  to  officers ^ 11 

Moneys,  school,  to  whom  paid 33 

Moneys,  school,  restrictions  on  use . 23 

Money,  objects  in  voting  to  be  designated 23 

Meeting,  to  elect  Trustees 20 

Meeting,  regular,  of  district 21 

Meeting,  of  Board  of  Directors,  special,  etc 25 

Meeting,  notice  of  district 30 

Misdemeanors,  concerning  schools,  offenses  defined,— penalty 41 

Month,    school,    defined 42 

Malfeasance  ofl  public  officers 45 


88  INDEX.  vv 

N. 

PAGE. 

Notice  of  formation  of  new  district 19 

Notice  of  district  meetings 26- 

o. 

Oath   of   Directors 21 

Objects,  in  voting-  money,  to  be  designated 23 

Order  of  business,   district   meeting 2-4 

Officer,  failing  to  pay  over  money — penalty 36 

Officer,  public,  malfeasance  of 45 

Officers  of  Institute  for  blind,  deaf  and  dumb 50 

P. 

Physiology  and  hygiene  shall  be  taught 34 

Public  instruction  provided  for 0 

Perpetual   funds  for   schools   designated 6 

Poll  tax 11 

Public  schools,  supervision  of 15 

Public  schcols,  school  age,   compulsory  education 28 

Public  schools,  tax  levy  for  school  purposes 32,  11 

Public  schools,  sectarian  instruction  prohibited 35 

Public  schools,  offenses  defined  concerning 41 

Public  schools,  school  week  and  month  defined 42 

Public  schools,  adoption  and  use  of  text  books 43 

Parents  or  guardians,  liability  of 28 

Pupils,  no  discrimination  as  to 8 

Police  officers,  authority  of 28 

Q. 

Qualifications  of  electors  at  school  meetings 24 

R. 

Restriction  on  investment  of  school  funds 7 

Regular    meetings   of   district 21 

Religious   belief,    no  discrimination    on    account    of,    employment    of 

teachers 35 

Refusal  to  deliver  records  to  successor — penalty 3(> 

Realty,  school  district  may  acquire — condemnation 42 

Revised   Statutes,   sale  of 44 

Revised  Statutes,  distribution  of 44 

Report  by  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 1  f> 

Report  by  County  Superintendent  of  Schools 17 

Report,   failure  to  make — penalty 18 

Report,  annual,  to  County  Superintendent 30 


'         INDEX.  89 

PAGE. 

Report  to  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  neglect  in  providing 
for  the  teaching  of  physiology  and  hygiene  required  by  Sec. 

3969,  R.   S 34 

Report  by  teachers  at  expiration  of  each  term 35 

Report,  annual,  by  President  of  Blind,  'Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute 51 

Report,   Treasurer  of  school   district  to   render  statement  when  re- 
quired   32" 

S. 

School  purposes — • 

Tax  levy  for,  lands  granted  for,  poll  tax  for 11,  32,  3 

Schools,  perpetual  funds  designated  for 6" 

Schools,  high,  establishment  of 27 

Schools,  taxation 11 

Schools,  separate,  for  colored  children 27 

Schools,  sectarian  instruction  prohibited  in 8" 

Schools,  Public,  supervision  of 9" 

Schools,  offenses  defined  concerning 41 

Schools,  adoption  and  use  of  text  books 43" 

Schools,  Blind,  Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute 63 

Schools,  State  Treasurer  to  receive  donations  for 37 

School  money,  restrictions  on  use  of 6 

School  money,  liability  of  State  Treasurer  for 37 

School  money,  fines  go  to  school  fund 36 

School  moi;ey,  restriction  on  investment  of 1 

School  money,  application  of  income 7 

School  money,  distribution  of  income 69,  7 

School  money,  provision  for  bonding  school  districts 3& 

School  money,  officers  failing  to  pay  over — penalty 34 

School  money,  transfer  of  school  funds 23" 

School  money,  to  whom  paid — ;Sec.  3968 34 

Separate  schools  for  colored  children 27 

Sectarian  instruction  prohibited 8 

Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  election  of 5"- 

Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  general  duties  of 9,  15 

Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  may  grant  teachers'  certificates,  16" 

Sex,  no  discrimination  because  of < 35 

School  district  to  be  body  corporate 2t 

School  district,  notice  of  formation  of  new 19 

School  district,  may  acquire  realty — condemnation 42" 

School  house  fund 32' 

Statement  to  be  rendered  by  Treasurer 32 

School  week  and  month  defined 42 

School  officers  shall  not  sell,  nor  act  as  agent  for  school  supplies — 

peralty 42 

School  district  seal..  ,  21 


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PAGE 

School  district,  change  of  county  boundaries  affecting 36 

School  age,  compulsory  education 28 

T. 

Taxation,  exemption  from 11 

Taxation  for  schools,  Constitutional  provision 8 

Taxation,  amendment 75 

Taxation,  annual  levy 75 

Taxation,  State  revenue 75 

Taxation,  county  revenue 75 

Tax  levy  for  school  purposes 32,  11 

'Text  books,  adoption  and  use  of 43 

Text  books,  Constitutional  provision 8 

Trustees  of  University 54 

Teachers'    certificates,    Superintendent    of    Public    Instruction    may 

grant 16 

'Teachers'  certificates,  County  Superintendent  may  grant  and  renew.  17 

Teachers,  employment  and  payment  of 35,  28 

Teachers'  fund,  separate  account  to  be  kept 31 

Teacher  to  make  report  at  end  of  each  term 35 

Teachers'  Institute 3:3 

Trustees  of  school  district,  meeting  to  elect 20 

Trustees  of  school  district,  conducting  election  of 23 

Trustees  of  school  district,  penalty  for  misapplication  of  funds  by. .  40 

Treasurer  of  district,  Board  to  examine  accounts  of 25 

Treasurer  of  district,  bond  of „ 27 

Treasurer  of  district,  to  render  statement 32 

Treasurer  of  district,  duties  of 32 

Treasurer  of  district,  to  publish  report 32 

Treasurer  of  district,  to  apply  for  and  receive  district-  money 32 

'Treasurer  of  district,  application  by  surety  of 46 

Taxes,  payment  of — what  receivable  for 44 

"Taxes  for  district,  duty  of  Clerk  and  Assessor  as  to 33 

Taxes  for  district,   equalization  of 33 

Taxes  for  district,  manner  of  collecting 33 

Taxes  for  district,  to  whom  paid  when  collected 34 

Taxes,  what  receivable  for 

Treasurer,   State,  to  receive  donations  for  schools 37 

Treasurer,  County,  to  have  custody  of  funds ' 

"Treasurer,  State,  to  keep  separate  account  school  fund 42 

u. 

University,   Constitutional   provision 

University,  act  of  incorporation ' 

University  lands 

University,  open  to  all • 


INDEX.  91 

PAGE 

University,  support  of 9 

University,    Trustees 10 

University,  permanent  location  submitted 10 

University,    appropriations   for 79 

V. 

Voting  money,  objects  to  be  designated 23 

Visiting  committee 26 

Vacancy  in  School  Board,  how  filled 26 

W. 

Week,  school,  defined , 42 


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